Tue.Apr 26, 2022

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Understanding the microbiome as an ‘overlooked critical organ’

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Compared to a ‘critical organ’ that had been largely ignored, companies working to develop microbiome-based therapies believe there is untapped potential in the area. Ben Hargreaves speaks to companies that are developing therapies not just in gastrointestinal conditions but also in broader areas, such an immuno-oncology. The interest in how the human microbiome influences health has grown substantially in the last decade.

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Impel Pharmaceuticals upper-nasal delivery offers hope for migraine patients

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The companyâs Precision Olfactory Delivery technology, currently combined with its Trudhesa migraine treatment, reportedly facilitates high absorption rates.

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Biofourmis is digital health’s latest unicorn, after raising $300m

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Biofourmis has raised $300 million in fourth-round financing, sending its value rocketing to around $1.3 billion and injecting some fresh momentum into the digital health sector after a slowdown in fundraising in the first quarter. The Boston-based startup – which has a business model straddling digital therapeutics (DTx), artificial intelligence-powered patient management and provision of virtual care – said the Series D will be used to fund clinical trials of its DTx candidates, scale up its v

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How To Prepare A Successful PCD Pharma Business Plan?

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PCD Pharma Business Plan. In a pharmaceutical business, you need a link between the pharma marketing company and the end-user, i.e., doctors, pharmacists, or others who can prescribe the medicine. This connecting link is the PCD Pharma Business. The full form of PCD is Propaganda Cum Distribution. Are you a person who wants to know about the details of preparing a successful PCD pharma business plan?

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Position Your Pharmacy for Expansion

Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay

Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.

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Achieving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials

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Making sure clinical trials are diverse and representative of the populations they’re studying isn’t just the right thing to do to promote inclusivity and equity; it’s also just good science/clinical scientific practice. But despite growing efforts to improve, many organisers still fall short when it comes to reaching, recruiting and retaining diverse patient populations in clinical trials.

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Women’s Digital Health: A New Era of Female Healthcare

Roots Analysis

Women’s digital health involves the initiatives taken by industry stakeholders and researchers, which include technological remedies, such as mobile apps, software, wearable devices and diagnostic tools that exclusively aid in improving female health and wellness. Since it is primarily focused on women’s healthcare, it is termed as Female Technology or FemTech.

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Thread buys CureClick to bring crowdsourced enrollment platform to DCTs

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The decentralized clinical trial specialist has acquired CureClick to add to its offerings a platform intended to expand awareness of study participation.

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Readout sets up phase 3 for Valneva/Pfizer’s Lyme disease jab

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There’s only one vaccine candidate for tick-borne infection Lyme disease in clinical development – Valneva and Pfizer’s VLA15 – and it has just moved another step closer to being available. The two partners have reported positive results in a phase 2 trial in paediatric patients aged five to 17, backing up earlier results in adults and setting up the start of a pivotal phase 3 trial in the third quarter of this year.

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FDA approves Gilead's COVID-19 treatment for young children

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The US agency has expanded its approval of Veklury to include use in pediatric patients 28 days and older who have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

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After bempeg failure, Nektar wields the axe

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Nektar has said it will cut 70% of its workforce in the wake of the comprehensive failure in trials of its immuno-oncology candidate bempegaldesleukin, which was discontinued last week. The move affects around 500 employees, and will allow Nektar to extend its cash reserves – which were valued at around $730 million at the end of last year – into the first half of 2025.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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ViGeneron and Daiichi Sankyo to develop therapy for eye diseases

Pharma Times

Follow-on collaboration between ViGeneron and Daiichi Sankyo allows the companies to create and validate vgAAV-based therapeutic candidates

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BCMA Targeted Therapies Summit

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With the undeniable excitement in the BCMA field over the past few months, the BCMA Targeted Therapies Summit returns to the space to equip you with the knowledge and connections to revolutionize your BCMA-centered pipeline. Pick the brains of 90+ academic and industry pioneers at the first physical edition of the only meeting dedicated to supercharging transformative next generation BCMA-targeted therapies into the clinic, navigating the complex landscape and optimizing clinical strategy to rev

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The Steve Morgan Foundation donates £50m to diabetes research

Pharma Times

The Foundation also launched a new collaboration with Diabetes UK and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation UK

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Abbott launches upgraded app for chronic pain devices

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Abbott has revamped the digital health app used alongside its neurostimulation devices for chronic pain, making it easier for doctors to track how well patients are managing the treatment. The Neurosphere myPath app is designed to track and report on patient-perceived pain relief and general well-being associated with spinal cord stimulation (SCS) or dorsal root ganglion (DRG) therapy using Abbott’s Proclaim device range.

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5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Pharmacy Management Software

Are you still using workarounds to manage your daily operations? To achieve peak performance, it's time to explore other options for specialty and infusion pharmacy software. Streamline pharmacy operations and improve clinical performance with automated processing, real-time data exchange, and electronic decision support. Download this helpful infographic to: Drive efficiency and patient adherence from referral receipt to delivery and ongoing care – all with our Pharmacy Cloud.

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Cidara and Mundipharma prep filings for antifungal rezafungin

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Mundipharma and Cidara Therapeutics have reported the results of a phase 3 trial of their new once-weekly antifungal rezafungin, setting up regulatory filings in the coming months. The two partners say the ReSTORE trial of rezafungin, a drug in the echinocandin class, met its objectives in showing that rezafungin was as effective as daily dosing with the decades-old drug caspofungin for candida infections.

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ICSs - an opportunity to improve Patient & Market Access at a local level

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Join us on Tuesday 26th April for a webinar, bought to you in association with IQVIA, where key industry figures from IQVIA and Boehringer Ingelheim, along with Integrated Care System Strategy experts, will be discussing the future of the Health and Care Bill and the importance of collaborations between ICS leaders to address system readiness to improve population health.

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Nkarta leaps on early CAR-NK data in blood cancers

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Shares in Nkarta more than doubled yesterday on the results of early-stage clinical that suggested it could be on to a winner with its natural kill (NK) cell therapy platform. The two phase 1 trials of the California biotech’s lead CAR-NK candidates showed that the therapies were able to induce complete responses in two groups of patients with hard-to-treat, heavily pre-treated blood cancers, and appeared easier to tolerate than current CAR-T therapies.

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