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Principia Biopharma reports data from Phase 1 metastatic bladder cancer trial

Principia Biopharma (NASDAQ:PRNB) reported that PRN1371 was well tolerated in the dose escalation portion of its Phase 1 trial in adult patients with advanced solid tumors. PRN1371, a fibroblast growth factor receptor...

May 21, 2019

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resTORbio reports new Phase 2b data for respiratory tract infection candidate

resTORbio (NASDAQ:TORC) reported new data from its Phase 2b trial of RTB101 for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in patients 65 years of age and older. Licensed from Novartis, RTB101 is a TORC1...

May 21, 2019

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Axovant doses first patient in gangliosidosis gene therapy trial

Axovant Gene Therapies (NASDAQ:AXGT) has dosed the first patient in a clinical study of AXO-AAV-GM1 for the treatment of GM1 gangliosidosis. GM1 gangliosidosis is a rare genetic disease where mutations in the GLB1 gene...

May 17, 2019

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Mustang Bio gets FDA orphan drug designation for malignant glioma

Mustang Bio (NASDAQ:MBIO) and development partner, Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH), received FDA orphan drug designation for MB-108 for the treatment of malignant glioma. Malignant glioma is a type of brain cancer...

May 17, 2019

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Achillion reports positive interim Phase 2 data in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACHN) reported interim data from its Phase 2 trial of ACH-4471, in combination with eculizumab, for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). In PNH, the complement...

May 17, 2019

Markets

BTIG starts Matinas BioPharma at buy; PT $5

BTIG launched coverage of Matinas BioPharma Holdings (NYSE AMER:MTNB) with a “buy” rating and $5 price target. The stock closed at 94 cents on May 16.

May 17, 2019

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Abstracts for BeyondSpring Plinabulin-Neulasta combination accepted at ASCO

Two of BeyondSpring’s (NASDAQ:BYSI) abstracts about its lead asset, Plinabulin, were accepted for publication in the proceedings of this year’s ASCO annual meeting May 31 to June 4 in Chicago. The data, derived from...

May 16, 2019

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MacroGenics reports positive Phase 3 results in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

MacroGenics’ (NASDAQ:MGNX) Phase 3 trial of margetuximab met its first sequential primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. The median PFS of patients...

May 16, 2019

Developments

FDA accepts Cue Biopharma IND for HPV-associated cancer candidate

Cue Biopharma’s (NASDAQ:CUE) IND for CUE-101, an immuno-oncology candidate for human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated cancers, had been accepted by the FDA. The majority of HPV-associated cancers are caused by the HPV16...

May 16, 2019

Developments

Rigel Pharma enrolls first patient in Phase 3 autoimmune hemolytic anemia trial

Rigel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RIGL) enrolled the first patient in its pivotal Phase 3 trial of fostamatinib for the treatment of warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA).

May 16, 2019

Category - News

Principia Biopharma reports data from Phase 1 metastatic bladder cancer trial

resTORbio reports new Phase 2b data for respiratory tract infection candidate

Axovant doses first patient in gangliosidosis gene therapy trial

Mustang Bio gets FDA orphan drug designation for malignant glioma

Achillion reports positive interim Phase 2 data in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

BTIG starts Matinas BioPharma at buy; PT $5

Abstracts for BeyondSpring Plinabulin-Neulasta combination accepted at ASCO

MacroGenics reports positive Phase 3 results in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

FDA accepts Cue Biopharma IND for HPV-associated cancer candidate

Rigel Pharma enrolls first patient in Phase 3 autoimmune hemolytic anemia trial

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