Medical Research

Boehringer Ingelheim Halts Chronic Kidney Disease Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Boehringer Ingelheim recently announced that the Phase 3 clinical trial studying empagliflozin in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will stop early based on a recommendation from the trial's...

Moderna Doses First Patient in HIV mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently dosed the first participant in an HIV trimer mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1574) clinical trial.   The open-label Phase 1 trial will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of...

Pfizer’s C. Difficile Vaccine Misses Primary Endpoint in Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently announced that a Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) vaccine candidate did not meet its primary endpoint of C. difficile infection (CDI) prevention, but was 100- percent effective...

Novo Nordisk Expands Collaboration in Oral Drug Delivery Tech

by Samantha McGrail

Novo Nordisk recently expanded its research collaboration in oral drug delivery technologies with the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital...

Gilead’s Trodelvy Helps HR/HER2 Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently announced that the Phase 3 clinical trial of Trodelvy in patients with HR/HER2-metastatic breast cancer met its primary endpoint. The Phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study evaluated Trodelvy versus...

Boehringer Ingelheim, Lifebit Partner to Advance Biomedical Data

by Samantha McGrail

Boehringer Ingelheim and precision medicine software company Lifebit Biotech recently partnered to build a scalable data, analytics, and infrastructure platform to unlock the transformation value of...

CHMP Recommends Pfizer, Biohaven’s Generic Drug for Migraine Attacks

by Samantha McGrail

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently adopted a positive opinion for Pfizer and Biohaven’s generic drug to treat migraine...

Gilead’s HIV-1 Drug Achieves High Rates of Virologic Suppression

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently announced one-year results from an ongoing Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial evaluating its HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, lenacapavir, in individuals with multi-drug resistant HIV. The trial...

Merck’s Keytruda, Chemotherapy Helps High-Risk Breast Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Merck recently announced that Keytruda, combined with chemotherapy and followed by Keytruda as monotherapy, prolonged event-free survival compared to chemotherapy followed by placebo in patients with...

Abbott Implants Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker in Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Abbott recently announced the world's first implant of a dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system as part of its Aveir DR i2i pivotal clinical trial. The prospective investigational study will...

Biogen to Develop, Commercialize Genentech’s Bispecific Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

Biogen recently exercised its option to participate in the development and commercialization of Genentech’s bispecific antibody, mosunetuzumab. Mosunetuzumab is a CD20xCD3 T-cell engaging...

Pfizer Confirms Positive Date of Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and Valneva recently announced further positive results from the Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating their Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15. The trial, VLA15-221, enrolled 294 healthy adult...

AstraZeneca Combination Treatment Helps Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced that Imfinzi combined with standard-of-care chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival and progression-free survival in patients with advanced biliary tract...

NIH Launches Competition to Boost Neuromodulation Therapies

by Samantha McGrail

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched the first phase of Neuromod Prize, a $9.8 million competition to accelerate the development of neuromodulation therapies. Neuromodulation...

Moderna, Carisma Partner to Develop In Vivo Cancer Therapies

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna and Carisma Therapeutics recently entered into an agreement to discover, develop, and commercialize in vivo engineered chimeric antigen receptor monocyte (CAR-M) cancer...

Pfizer, Beam Focus on Precision Medicine for Rare Diseases

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and Beam Therapeutics recently entered into a four-year collaboration focused on in vivo base editing programs to generate precision medicine for rare diseases of the liver, muscle, and central...

Tony Wood Replaces Hal Barron as GSK’s Chief Executive Officer

by Samantha McGrail

GSK recently appointed Tony Wood as chief executive officer (CSO), replacing current CSO Hal Barron. Wood, a highly respected scientist and one of the world’s pre-eminent chemists, has over 30...

Pfizer, Biohaven to Commercialize Small Molecule Migraine Drugs

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and Biohaven recently completed a collaboration transaction to commercialize small molecule migraine drugs, rimegepant and zavegepant, outside the US. Rimegepant, commercialized as Nurtex ODT...

Pfizer Gains Access to LPN Tech For mRNA Vaccines, Therapeutics

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and Acuitas Therapeutics recently entered into a development and option agreement under which Pfizer will license Acuitas’ lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology for up to 10 mRNA vaccine or...

Convalescent Plasma Reduces COVID-19 Hospitalizations Nearly 50%

by Samantha McGrail

Convalescent plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 reduced hospitalizations by nearly 50% for outpatients infected with the virus in a nationwide, multicenter clinical trial. Johns...