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Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator and Intonation Research Laboratories form a collaboration to fight cancerous neuroendocrine tumors

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator (IMA) and Intonation Research Laboratories (Intonation) have formed a collaboration to develop treatments that target cancerous neuroendocrine tumors, or tumors that form from hormone-releasing cells.

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Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

In work published in the journal ACS Nano , a team that included Kirill Gorshkov, NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Rockville, MD, along with Eunkeu Oh and Mason Wolak, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.) That’s not science fiction.

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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

The Pharma Data

In addition, as part of the label update, this indication has been revised to be for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy.

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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

Our polygenic score will enable the application of these treatments to people that specifically need it through precision medicine by identifying the individual at high genetic risk of low circulating levels of the vitamin. The answer is no because there are both genetic and dietary (environmental) causes for low vitamin A.

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Could Keytruda/Lenvima Combo Help Treat Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma?

The Pharma Data

The trial looked at a combination of Keytruda from Merck and Lenvima from Eisai for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The results from KEYNOTE-581/CLEAR (Study 307) support the potential use of KEYTRUDA plus LENVIMA for the first-line treatment of advanced RCC. Merck , also known as MSD outside of the U.S.

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AZ Fasenra shows benefit in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps

The Pharma Data

. AstraZeneca’s Fasenra (benralizumab) significantly reduced the size of nasal polyps and cut nasal blockage in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, raising hopes for a new treatment option for this condition. The OSTRO data indicate Fasenra can benefit patients with nasal polyps.”. Source link.

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A2 Biotherapeutics Entered Into Collaboration Agreement With Merck to Develop Allogeneic Cell Therapy for Solid Tumor Cancers

The Pharma Data

Perlmutter, President, Merck Research Laboratories. “We We hope that the combined efforts of Merck Research Laboratories and A2 Biotherapeutics will enable the application of this ingenious approach to improve the treatment of patients suffering from refractory solid tumors.”. About A2 Biotherapeutics.