Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca announced that selumetinib has been granted orphan drug designation (ODD) in Japan for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a rare and debilitating genetic disease. Selumetinib is co-developed and co-commercialised with MSD Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US (MSD: known...

LabCorp, a leading global life sciences company that is deeply integrated in guiding patient care, announced that Covance, its drug development business, has deployed the Xcellerate® COVID-19 solution as part of its award-winning Xcellerate platform. Covance has developed a...

Bharat Biotech has successfully developed COVAXIN™, India’s 1stvaccine candidate for COVID-19, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) -National Institute of Virology (NIV). The SARS-CoV-2 strain was isolated in NIV, Pune and transferred to Bharat Biotech....

Zealand Pharma announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial of the long-acting GLP-1/glucagon dual agonist BI 456906, which Zealand has licensed to Boehringer Ingelheim. As part of the license agreement, Zealand will...

Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services, a specialist provider of pharmaceutical and vaccine development services, has announced it has signed a supply agreement with AstraZeneca for sterile manufacture of the COVID-19 recombinant adenovirus vaccine known as AZD1222 for AstraZeneca sponsored clinical trials. Under...

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the U.S. FDA has authorized the initiation of a Phase 2/3 trial to investigate PTC299, a dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) inhibitor, as a potential treatment for COVID-19. PTC299 is an oral investigational drug with a...

The study will be the first time Imperial’s vaccine has been trialled in humans and will assess whether it is well-tolerated and produces an effective immune response against Covid-19. The trial will recruit 300 healthy participants who will then receive...