US biodata company Gatehouse Bio is joining forces with pharma giant AstraZeneca to accelerate the discovery of new drugs for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases using sRNAlytics, the former’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform. According to Gatehouse Bio, the sRNAlytics platform is capable of identifying new small RNA (sRNA) signatures and can illuminate molecular pathways correlated to […]
AstraZeneca has bagged approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the self-administration of FASENRA (benralizumab) through FASENRA Pen, a pre-filled, single-use auto-injector, for the add-on maintenance treatment of severe asthma in patients aged 12 years and older, and with an eosinophilic phenotype. FASENRA is a monoclonal antibody which directly binds to the […]
Continue reading …PAOLA 1 trial results : Lynparza (olaparib), a cancer drug which was jointly developed by AstraZeneca and MSD, in combination with bevacizumab, met the primary endpoint of the phase 3 PAOLA 1 clinical trial in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. The PAOLA 1 primary endpoint is the statistically-significant and clinically-meaningful improvement shown by Lynparza plus […]
Continue reading …Tagrisso FLAURA trial results : Pharma giant AstraZeneca said that the phase 3 FLAURA trial evaluating Tagrisso (osimertinib) in previously untreated patients with locally-advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has yielded positive overall survival (OS) results. The randomized, double-blinded, multicenter late-stage trial featured NSCLC patients whose tumors have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) […]
Continue reading …Verdiperstat phase 3 MSA clinical trial : US biopharma company Biohaven Pharmaceutical has enrolled the first patient in a phase 3 clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of verdiperstat (formerly known as AZD3241) in patients with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), a rare neurodegenerative disorder. Licensed from AstraZeneca in September 2018, verdiperstat is an […]
Continue reading …Lumoxiti FDA approval : AstraZeneca has bagged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its CD22-directed cytotoxin Lumoxiti (moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukaemia (HCL). Lumoxiti FDA approval for hairy cell leukaemia treatment is for adult patients who had undergone more than two systemic therapies in the […]
Continue reading …UK biopharma company AstraZeneca and Amgen have secured breakthrough therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their asthma drug tezepelumab. The FDA breakthrough therapy designation for tezepelumab is for the treatment of patients with severe asthma, without an eosinophilic phenotype, who are administered inhaled corticosteroids/long-acting beta2-agonists with or without oral corticosteroids […]
Continue reading …Update on Imfinzi EMA approval : The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion for the approval of AstraZeneca lung cancer drug Imfinzi (durvalumab) for the treatment of locally-advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The committee has recommended Imfinzi EMA approval of […]
Continue reading …Acalabrutinib FDA approval : AstraZeneca has secured an early approval for its blood cancer drug Calquence (acalabrutinib) for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma in adult patients who were subjected to a minimum of one prior therapy for the rare type of blood cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of […]
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