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CHMP meeting highlights – June 2024
In its latest meeting, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended several new medicines, including positive opinions for treatments for rare disorders.
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New partnership to aid supply of Ga-68-based radiopharmaceuticals
The new collaboration is set to ensure a steady, more accessible supply of Ga-68-based radiopharmaceuticals, thereby helping to address traditional logistical challenges due to gallium’s short half-life.
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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals
In this exclusive Q&A, Dr Jack Hoppin, CEO, and Dr John Babich, Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics share their perspective on the evolving radiopharmaceutical landscape and why radiopharmaceutical therapeutics have significant potential in oncology.
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Lilly agrees $1.4 billion radiopharma acquisition
Two late-stage radioligand therapies for oncological indications are planned to be developed through an acquisition agreement between Eli Lilly and POINT Biopharma Global.
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Radiopharma production facility opens in Belgium
Australian biotech Telix Pharmaceuticals has unveiled a new €14.1 million radiopharmaceutical production facility in Brussels South, Belgium.
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CHMP meeting highlights – May 2023
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended two new medicines for approval in its May meeting, including a neurosteroid for epileptic seizures.
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EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) meeting highlights – February 2023
In its latest meeting, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended eight new medicines for approval, including an enzyme replacement therapy for a rare disease.
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Advancing cell therapies – γδ T cells and the combination factor
In this Q&A, Bryan Kobel, Chief Executive Officer of TC Biopharm, discusses innovations in cell therapies, introducing the company’s work in gamma delta (γδ) T-cell technologies and his predictions for the future of cell therapy development.
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New microencapsulation approach allows slow release of peptide drugs
A study from the University of Michigan shows a new method of drug microencapsulation, allowing several peptide drugs to be slowly released in the body.
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EMA human medicines committee (CHMP) meeting highlights, March 2022
The March meeting saw the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommend five medications for approval including a multiple myeloma gene therapy.
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EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) Feb meeting highlights
Highlights of the February 2022 meeting of EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) include the recommendation of 13 medicines for approval, along with updates to other drugs and COVID-19 vaccines.
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Erleada® reduces prostate-specific antigen (PSA) by 86 percent
Erleada achieved an 86 percent reduction in PSA at 12 months in the majority of patients, shows post-hoc analysis of Phase III study.
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Collaboration and integration to progress clinical research
Here, Lucinda Cash-Gibson and Francesco Patalano discuss why the pharmaceutical industry is collaborating to develop protocols for patient-centric integrated platform trials and what the clinical research industry may look like in future.
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Proxalutamide reduces COVID-19 mortality risk by 92 percent
In a Phase III trial, Proxalutamide reduced mortality and expedited recovery of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in Brazil.
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First patient dosed with therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine
The trial will evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of Ultimovacs’ prostate cancer-specific therapeutic TET-based vaccine.
