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FDA authorizes new drug to protect immune compromised from Covid-19

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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized a new antibody to protect immunocompromised individuals against Covid-19.    The drug, known as Pemgarda and marketed by the biotech Invivyd, is the first such drug to become available since the agency pulled AstraZeneca’s Evusheld off the market in January 2023.

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AbbVie to buy immune drug developer Landos

BioPharma Dive

Worth about $138 million upfront, the deal is another example of pharma interest in new drugs for inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s.

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2nd NSCLC Drug Development Summit

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The 2nd NSCLC Drug Development Summit returns for its second year to unite biopharma and academic leaders during an exciting era of personalized medicine. Improve your drug development rationale across all lines of NSCLC and address challenges when moving therapies forward. Progress sequencing and combination approaches.

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Lilly buys oral immune drug developer Dice Therapeutics for $2.4B

BioPharma Dive

The deal adds to recent M&A activity as well as signals pharma’s continued interest in pills for inflammatory conditions, which are meant to approach the potency of injectable therapies.

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Aviceda, QUB to develop next-generation glyco-immune therapeutics

Pharmaceutical Technology

Aviceda Therapeutics (Aviceda) has entered into a strategic partnership with the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) for the development of next-generation glyco-immune therapeutics. The company strengthens the translational research collaboration between the US and Ireland.

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Capturing transporter structure paves the way for drug development

World Pharma News

Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied the structure and function of a transporter involved in cancer and immunity. The findings, published in Cell, have implications for drug development.

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Tackling immune-mediated disease with CAR Tregs

European Pharmaceutical Review

Recognising the potential of CAR T cells to act as highly targeted therapeutics, several biotechnology companies – including Sangamo Therapeutics – have established development pipelines of CAR T regulatory cells (Tregs) that aim to tackle immune?mediated What are Tregs and how are they applicable to immune-mediated disease?

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