It’s been a busy week for Optimum, with some amazing original content from our clients, with this week’s podcast highlighting their expertise in cutting-edge lung cancer research. In our weekly hot topic article, they give predictions for the 2025 outlook following November’s London Life Sciences Week. We also have five clients nominated for the prestigious […]
During the BIO-Europe conference in Stockholm, Optimum co-hosted a special reception featuring a fireside chat with Renée Aguiar-Lucander, former CEO of Calliditas, who led the Swedish company since 2017 until recently – taking it from small biotech to its $1.1 billion acquisition. Here, we tell the story of her remarkable seven-year journey with the firm. […]
Calliditas Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq: CALT, Nasdaq Stockholm: CALTX) (“Calliditas”) today announced that the Phase 2b TRANSFORM trial met its primary endpoint, showing statistically significant improvement in ALP (Alkaline Phosphatase) for both doses tested versus placebo. The trial evaluated setanaxib, a NOX enzyme inhibitor, in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and elevated liver stiffness. The […]
Calliditas Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq: CALT, Nasdaq Stockholm: CALTX) (“Calliditas”) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent for application no. 16/760,910 entitled “Use of NOX Inhibitors for Treatment of Cancer.” The patent covers a method of treating a solid tumor presenting resistance to PD-1 inhibitor immunotherapy by administering […]
Calliditas Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq: CALT, Nasdaq Stockholm: CALTX) (“Calliditas”) today announced that the global open-label extension (OLE) study to the Phase 3 NefIgArd study showed a treatment response consistent with the NefIgArd study across endpoints of urine protein to creatinine ration (UPCR) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at 9 months across all IgAN patients, including […]
