Roivant Sciences, a global healthcare company focused on realizing the full value of promising biomedical research to improve the lives of patients and their families, today announced the launch of Datavant, a new company focused on employing artificial intelligence to improve the clinical trial process.

With the motivation of finding a solution to the unmet needs of patients with different types of cancer, PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) announces the start of a Phase I clinical study with PM14, a new antitumor compound resulting from the company´s internal investigation program for the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors.

RIBOXX PHARMACEUTICALS, a biotech company developing Toll-like-receptor (TLR) and RIG-I-like-Receptor (RLR) ligands, and ACCINOV, a pharmaceutical establishment for experimental drug product announced the successful industrial GMP manufacturing, including packaging and quality control of RIBOXXIM®, a novel and highly potent Toll-like Receptor 3 (TLR3)-ligand.

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that the results of a subpopulation analysis of patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) coinfection in a Phase III trial of its in-house discovered and developed anticancer agent lenvatinib mesylate (product names: Lenvima / Kisplyx, "lenvatinib") versus sorafenib as a first-line treatment for unresectable HCC were presented for the first time during the 11th Annual Conference of the International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA) held in Seoul, South Korea.

Levicept Ltd., an asset-centric biotechnology company focused on the development of LEVI-04, a first-in-class treatment for chronic pain indications announces that it has commenced its Phase I trial of LEVI-04 in healthy volunteers and osteoarthritis patients at Hammersmith Medical Research, London UK.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sanofi announced that the pivotal Phase 3 LIBERTY ASTHMA QUEST study of dupilumab in a broad population of patients with uncontrolled, persistent asthma met its two primary endpoints.