There’s a temptation to think we won’t need Dry January or Love Your Liver Month initiatives in the future. After all, alcohol consumption is declining across the West and has been doing so for the last two decades. Gen Z teens rebel against their Gen X parents by not drinking – and castigating their elders for their unhealthy ways. In the UK only 7% […]
Acesion Pharma starts Phase 2 trial of AP31969 in patients with atrial fibrillation Acesion Pharma. a biotech company pioneering treatments for atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia, announced enrolment of the first patients in its randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose finding Phase 2 clinical trial (NCT07267949), designed to assess the efficacy and safety of AP31969 […]
Every year the life science investment world looks forward to January’s ‘JPM week’, which revolves around the J.P. Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. But this time there is real anticipation. Because, after a number of times in which the event has promised to kick-start the investment market, only for the year to falter, this time expectations are much more solid. Public biotech markets have been on a roll since April, with […]
Leucid Bio and Syenex announce strategic collaboration for in vivo CAR-T cell engineering Leucid Bio, a privately-held biotechnology company developing innovative Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies using its proprietary lateral CAR platform, and Syenex, an open-science genetic medicines platform company, announced a strategic collaboration to access Syenex’s VivoCell Platform for the precise in vivo delivery of […]
Good news for developers of drugs for ultra-rare diseases – including cell and gene therapy firms – in the form of a new way of assessing them that’s being proposed by the US’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The regulator is looking at introducing what it calls a “plausible mechanism” pathway. This would allow approval of medicines for ultra-rare diseases, if there are very […]
