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IRON CONTROL | Disc Medicine And Mabwell Sign Deal For Licence To Antibodies Portfolio
Disc plans to initiate a phase 1 trial in healthy volunteers in the second half of 2023. MWTX-003 has the potential to address a wide range of hematologic disorders including…
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HSCT | Briquilimab Granted Orphan Drug Designation By The European Commission
Previously, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted orphan drug designation to briquilimab in HCT, as well as rare pediatric disease designation for the treatment of severe combined immunodeficiency…
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CLINICAL UPDATE | Graphite’s Hopes For Sickle Cell Cure Blunted After First Patient Dosed Experiences Serious Event
The company cited a “serious adverse event in the first patient dosed” with its gene therapy nulabeglogene autogedtemcel (nula-cel) as part of a phase 1/2 trial for SCD. The event is likely to…
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CLINICAL NEWS | PYRUKYND® Receives Positive CHMP Opinion For The Treatment of PKD in Adults
PYRUKYND® is a first-in-class, oral PK activator that was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If approved by the European Commission (EC), PYRUKYND® will be the first approved disease-modifying therapy…
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Oxbryta Gets Marketing Authorisation In The UK For Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
Voxelotor, an oral treatment taken once daily, is the first medicine authorized in Great Britain that directly inhibits sickle haemoglobin (HbS) polymerization, the molecular basis of sickling and destruction of…
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SCIENTIFIC NEWS | Human Trials Of Universal Flu And COVID-19 Vaccines Begin
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) work on a universal flu vaccine is already well advanced, with human trials beginning now. The new formulation, called BPL-1357, contains a variety…
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PYRUVATE KINASE DEFICIENCY | FDA Approves First Drug For The Rare Inherited Anemia
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the approval of Mitapivat (PYRUKYND®) tablets as treatment for haemolytic anemia in adults with pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency. The oral PK…
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What’s New In Clinical Trials For Thalassaemia/Sickle Cell Disease Drugs And Therapies?
Many pharmaceutical companies are making remarkable progress in their research into candidate treatments for these diseases and 2022 is expected to be yet another eventful year for haemoglobin disorders! Check…
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FDA Grants Priority Review to Luspatercept-aamt for Anemia in Adults With NTD β-Thalassaemia
The FDA has set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of March 27, 2022. In addition, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Type II variation…
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TIF Releases New Scientific Bulletin To Highlight Research On Haemoglobin Disorders
A key objective of the Thalassaemia International Federation is to inform and update regularly the global haemoglobinopathies family, both patients and physicians, on the progress and new developments that arise…
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