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CDC probes possible safety risk for Pfizer's new COVID shot, sees no need to change vaccine practices

Fierce Pharma

CDC probes possible safety risk for Pfizer's new COVID shot, sees no need to change vaccine practices. zbecker. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:49.

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6 Takeaways From the 41st J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

MedCity News

The 41st annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference concluded last week. After the pandemic prompted it to go virtual, it was back in person, smaller in size and more effective. Here are my takeaways.

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Protesting 'punitive' clawbacks, AbbVie and Eli Lilly bow out of British drug pricing scheme

Fierce Pharma

Protesting 'punitive' clawbacks, AbbVie and Eli Lilly bow out of British drug pricing scheme. fkansteiner. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 09:32.

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Cancer Biotech Elicio Finds Path to Public Markets Via Angion Reverse Merger

MedCity News

Elicio Therapeutics dipped its toe in the IPO waters but decided to go public by merging with publicly traded Angion Biomedica. Clinical-stage Elicio is developing immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, that work by targeting immune cells located in the lymph nodes.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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JPM23: Novartis takes sweeping approach to 'US-first' mindset, exec says

Fierce Pharma

JPM23: Novartis takes sweeping approach to 'US-first' mindset, exec says. aliu. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:54.

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Dry(ish) January: How One Company Is Helping Consumers Drink in Moderation

MedCity News

Sunnyside is promoting “Dry(ish)” January that promotes drinking in moderation versus complete sobriety. The company offers a direct-to-consumer app that helps users make a plan for their drinking and provides peer coaching.

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How Transcarent Is Expanding Access to Expert Second Opinions

MedCity News

Transcarent recently announced a partnership with The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, which provides second opinions from medical specialists via video visits. Now Transcarent members can access The Clinic’s services as a benefit, which means they won’t face any out-of-pocket costs in most cases.

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Bayer feeling more heat from activist investors, this time from Bluebell

Fierce Pharma

Bayer feeling more heat from activist investors, this time from Bluebell. kdunleavy. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 07:09.

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Hospital Universitario and Josep Carreras develop cell therapy for leukaemia

Pharmaceutical Technology

Spain’s Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre researchers, along with the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, have developed a new cell therapy based on STAb cells to treat a type of leukaemia. The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) provided funding for the new STAb therapy development. It could be used for T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (T-ALL) treatment in patients for whom bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy failed to work.

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Loading mRNA into extracellular vesicles reduces wrinkles in mice

Fierce Pharma

Loading mRNA into extracellular vesicles reduces wrinkles in mice. ntaylor. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:04.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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HHS: Younger Adults, Latino Individuals Showed Gains in Coverage From 2019 to 2021

MedCity News

The uninsured rate declined to 10.5% in 2021 from 11.1% in 2019, according to a recent report from HHS. Some of the largest gains in coverage were among demographic groups that historically have had higher uninsured rates, such as younger adults, Latino individuals, American Indian/Alaska Natives and non-English speaking adults.

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Entering J&J's fiefdom, Luye wins FDA approval of long-acting schizophrenia drug

Fierce Pharma

Entering J&J's fiefdom, Luye wins FDA approval of long-acting schizophrenia drug. ntaylor. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 07:03.

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UK ATMP clinical trials report 2022 published

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Catapult has published its ‘ UK Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) Clinical Trials Report 2022 ’. In the data, T cells were revealed as the most commonly investigated cell type continuing to increase. The research observed this cell type took up 58 percent of UK ATMP clinical trials in 2022. . Matthew Durdy, Chief Executive of CGT Catapult commented: “It is encouraging to see continued growth of UK clinical trial activity, demonstrating the UK as a favoura

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Driving clinical trial innovation forward with precision medicine

pharmaphorum

Late last year, pharmaphorum spoke with AstraZeneca’s Ben Challis, VP and head of translational science and experimental medicine, cardiovascular, renal, and metabolism (CVRM), together with Magnus Jörnten-Karlsson, executive director of Unify. Unify, launched in December 2020, is AstraZeneca’s patient app and clinical trial support tool. Already, it is operating at scale across the company, used in more than 28 countries and available in 62 languages.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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MHRA approves biosimilar for vision disorders in Great Britain

European Pharmaceutical Review

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted a marketing authorisation for Ximluci ® (ranibizumab), a biosimilar referencing Lucentis®, to help treat a leading cause of blindness globally. Ximluci ® has been approved in the UK for treating wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), diabetic macular oedema (DME), diabetic retinopathy (PDR), retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and visual impairment due to choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in adults.

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Cambridge Cognition buys vocal biomarker firm Winterlight

pharmaphorum

UK digital brain health company Cambridge Cognition has bolstered its speech analysis capabilities with the acquisition of Winterlight Labs of Toronto, Canada, in a cash and stock deal worth £7 million ($8.6 million). The deal extends Cambridge Cognition’s technology in the area of the use of voice-based assessments that can be used to detect and monitor health conditions, and according to the company gives it a platform “that can deliver most of the voice tasks used today by psychol

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Stada and Xbrane receive approval for Ximluci

PharmaTimes

Biosimilar gains MHRA marketing authorisation for use throughout Britain

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AstraZeneca backs AI-based lung cancer diagnosis pilot in UK

pharmaphorum

Drugmaker AstraZeneca has teamed up with Indian digital health specialist Qure.ai and a clinical group in the UK to test an artificial intelligence-powered technology to help radiologists detecting lung cancer in chest X-rays. The aim of the pilot is to scan and review more than 250,000 images generated at clinics in the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, to see if Qure.ai’s qXR software can make faster and more accurate diagnoses of lung cancer.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Orphagen’s ACC therapy receives FDA rare pediatric disease status

Pharmaceutical Technology

Orphagen Pharmaceuticals has received a rare pediatric disease designation (RPDD) for OR-449 from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat paediatric adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). OR-449 is a first-in-class, orally bioavailable, potent and selective small molecule antagonist of the orphan nuclear receptor steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1, NR5A1).

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Taking an ‘upside-down’ approach to mRNA delivery

pharmaphorum

Ben Hargreaves speaks to Liberate Bio, a company that is hoping to address the delivery issues that could prevent mRNA, as well as siRNA and ASO therapeutics, from reaching their full potential. The pandemic proved that mRNA technology could provide effective protection against infectious disease, at least in the case of COVID-19. Research into mRNA dates back to the 1970s, but with the approval of both Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer’s vaccines, this approach has finally been validated.

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Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain cancer biomarker funding

PharmaTimes

Industry-first cancer screening technology boosted by biomedical grant funding

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Angion stock falls after agreeing Elicio Therapeutics merger

pharmaphorum

Angion Biomedica ended 2022 in the midst of a strategic review after its lead drug for kidney diseases flamed out, and it has now charted a path forward – a reverse merger with clinical-stage biotech Elicio Therapeutics. Shares in the company fell sharply this morning after the announcement of the deal, which will see the two companies combine behind lead programme ELI-002, an immunotherapy targeting KRAS-driven cancers that is currently in a phase 1 trial in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.

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The M&A hunt is on — here are the prime targets

PharmaVoice

Companies with advanced molecular therapies, oncology assets and obesity treatments could be fuel for a dealmaking fire this year.

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Increase Your Visibility with a Directory of HCPs in Vancouver

Scott’s Directories

As a business-to-business seller, you want to make sure that your products and services are seen by the right people. One way to maximize your visibility is to use a Vancouver physician directory. This type of directory allows you to list your company and products in order to target doctors in British Columbia who may be interested in what you have to offer.

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The American Society for Microbiology Adopts CCC RightsLink for Scientific Communications to Manage its Growing Open Access Program

Copyright Clearance Center

January 17, 2023 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, announces the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its growing OA program. ASM is one of the largest life science societies, composed of more than 30,000 scientists and health professionals.

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Scott Burrows, Motivational Safety Speaker

Scott Burrows

“Safety Affects Everyone in the 2023 Workplace – Including You” There has been an important shift in workplace safety that will involve everyone in your organization. As a motivational safety speaker, I must emphasize that “safety” is more critical than ever. Forget the posters and harnesses?

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Versanis’ bimagrumab, first-in-class obesity therapy, enters Phase IIb of development

Pharmaceutical Technology

On January 12, Versanis Bio announced that enrollment had begun for its Phase IIb trial, BELIEVE (NCT05616013), which aims to study bimagrumab’s (BYM-338) efficacy and safety in the US, among other locations. Bimagrumab is of interest in the obesity space as it is a first-in-class therapy for obesity. In a previous Phase II trial (NCT03005288), which studied the effect of bimagrumab in obese or overweight patients with type 2 diabetes, fat loss exceeding 20% was demonstrated by week 48 of the st

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Misinformation causes Finnish health institute to drop Twitter

pharmaphorum

Finland’s Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has temporarily discontinued use of its official account on Twitter, saying it has become increasingly concerned about misinformation and conspiracy theories being perpetuated on the social media platform. A spokesperson for THL – an R&D institute operating as part of Finland’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Health – told local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that it has become alarmed by inappropriate responses to its tweets, generate

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Focusing on smaller biotechs to have a big impact on society

PharmaVoice

Marcus Delatte discusses how and why he focuses his expertise on counseling smaller companies and mentoring the next generation of technical experts.

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Boehringer, Takeda make it into global top 15 employer list

pharmaphorum

Boehringer Ingelheim and Takeda are the only two pharmaceutical groups to be named among the 15 Global Top Employers for 2023, an award dedicated to companies that enrich the workplace environment. Run by the Netherlands-headquartered Top Employers Institute, the annual competition is open to around 2,000 organisations that have already been validated and certified as good employers based on a wide range of factors including employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, career development, sustai

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.