Category: Impacting News

Exelixis Announces Q2 2024 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update  

Exelixis Q2 Results and Corporate Update Yesterday, Aug. 6, 2024, Exelixis, (EXEL) reported financial results for the second quarter of 2024, provided an update on progress toward achieving key corporate objectives, and detailed its recent and anticipated commercial, clinical, and . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Adaptimmune Therapeutics: A First Approved Treatment of Unresectable or Metastatic Synovial Sarcoma

Adaptimmune Therapeutics Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc (ADAP) announced that the U.S. FDA has accelerated the approval of TECELRA® for the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma who received prior chemotherapy, and are  HLA-A*02:01P, -A*02:02P, -A*02:03P, or -A*02:06P positive . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Anavex Life Sciences: Phase IIb/III Trial Results of Blarcamesine Presented at Alzheimer’s Association Conference 

Anaves Life Sciences Trial Results of Blarcamesine Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL) presented comprehensive results from a Phase IIb/III study showing that blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73), once daily orally, significantly slowed clinical decline in people with early Alzheimer's disease (AD). The data presentation was made by Marwan Noel Sabbagh, MD, Professor of Neurology at Barrow Neurological Institute and Chairman . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Viking Therapeutics Reports Promising News

Viking Therapeutics Viking Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel first-in-class or best-in-class therapies for the treatment of metabolic and endocrine disorders, with three compounds currently in clinical trials.  Viking's research and development activities leverage its expertise in metabolism to develop innovative therapeutics designed to improve patients' lives. The firm’s clinical programs include VK2735, a novel dual agonist of the glucagon-like …

Pliant Therapeutics: Positive Long-Term Data from INTEGRIS-PSC Phase 2a Trial of Bexotegrast

Pliant Therapeutics Pliant Therapeutics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of fibrotic diseases. Pliant's lead product candidate, bexotegrast (PLN-74809), is an oral, small molecule, dual selective inhibitor of αvß6 and αvß1 integrins that is in development in the lead indications for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, and primary sclerosing cholangitis, or …

Kazia Therapeutics Announces Phase II/III Clinical Trial Results for Paxalisib in Glioblastoma

Kazia Therapeutics in the NEWS  Sydney, July 10, 2024, Kazia Therapeutics Limited (KZIA) - an oncology-focused drug development company, is pleased to announce results from GBM-AGILE, a phase II/III study that included an evaluation of paxalisib versus standard of care (SOC) for patients with the life-threatening brain cancer glioblastoma.  GBM AGILE STUDY GBM AGILE is an adaptive phase . . . This content is for …

Merck and Orion Announce Mutual Exercise of Option Providing Merck Global Exclusive Rights to Opevesostat

Merck in the NEWS Merck Pharmaceuticals (MRK), known as Merck, Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, and the Finnish pharmaceutical Company Orion Corporation announced that notice has been provided of the mutual exercise of an option to convert the companies’ ongoing co-development and co-commercialization agreement for the investigational product opevesostat into an exclusive global license . . . This content is …

Verona Pharma Announces the US FDA Approval of Ohtuvayre™ for the Maintenance Treatment of COPD

Verona Pharma in the NEWS Yesterday, June 26, 2024, Verona Pharma plc (VRNA) announced that the US FDA has approved Ohtuvayre (ensifentrine) for maintenance treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adult patients. Ohtuvayre is the first inhaled product with a novel mechanism of action available for the maintenance treatment of COPD in more than 20 years. The product . . . This content …

Nurix Therapeutics: Positive Results from Ongoing Clinical Trial of NX-5948

Nurix Therapeutics in the NEWS On June 16, 2024, Nurix Therapeutics (NRIX) announced the presentation of updated clinical data for NX-5948, an orally bioavailable degrader of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK), being evaluated in an ongoing Phase 1a/b clinical trial in adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies, including CLL and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL

FDA Approval of argenx Product VYVGART Hytrulo for Patients with CIDP

argenx in the NEWS argenx SE (ARGX) announced that the U.S. FDA has approved VYVGART Hytrulo (efgartigimod alfa and hyaluronidase-qvfc) for adult patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). VYVGART Hytrulo is approved for CIDP as a once weekly 30-to-90 second subcutaneous injection. It is the first and only neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) blocker . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Broadcom Inc. Announces 2Q Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results, Quarterly Dividend and Stock Split 10-1

Broadcom Inc Announcements What analysts heard from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm Broadcom Inc is promising and exciting news about the past and excellent expectations regarding the future. The Story The Artificial Intelligence Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) reported financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2024 ended May 5, 2024. Broadcom provided guidance for its fiscal year 2024 and . . . This content …

What About Agenus?

Answering Questions and Our Opinion About Agenus We believe that Agenus' (AGEN) frozen stock price for several years has and will continue to move up based on the recent news regarding the firm's promising oncology products. That's in addition to the firm's current collaboration with five stars biotechtechnology and biopharmaceuticals collaborators. We believe it is important that . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Presented Positive Results from Two Late Studies of investigational Product Donidalorsen

Ionis Parmaceuticals Treating Hereditary Angioedema On May 31, 2024, Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) announced positive results from two Phase 3 OASIS-HAE and OASIS plus studies of the firm’s Donidalorsen in patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE). Donidalorsen demonstrating a sustained significant reduction in monthly HAE attack rates and continued attack rate improvement of >90% after one year treatment . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Moderna Announces Data to be Presented at 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting 

Moderna to Host Investor Event Via Webcast Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) announced that three abstracts on mRNA-4157 (V940), an investigational mRNA individualized neoantigen therapy, have been accepted for presentation at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.   The meeting  will be held May 31 - June 4 in Chicago, IL. mRNA-4157 (V940) is being . . . This content is for paid …

Verrica Pharmaceuticals: Collaboration and License Agreements for the Treatment of Skin Diseases Other Than Molluscum Contagiosum

Verrica Pharmaceuticals Verrica Pharmaceuticals’ (VRCA) product YCANTH (cantharidin) is the only commercially available treatment approved by the FDA for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients two years of age and older with Molluscum Contagiosum. Molluscum Contagiosum is a highly contagious viral skin infection affecting approximately 6 million people in the United States, primarily children. The firm’s product VP-102 is in . . . This …