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Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Thursday, March 26, 2020 Pfizer has paused enrollment in many new and ongoing clinical trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reports. The action sees Pfizer join Bristol Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly on the list of Big Pharma companies to revise their R&D plans in light of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. |
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Top Stories Thursday, March 26, 2020 Ipsen has terminated a pivotal trial of its troubled rare disease drug palovarotene in response to the ongoing clinical hold. The action likely deprives Ipsen of a shot at generating data to bring a drug it bought in a $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) deal to market in a blockbuster indication. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Regenacy Pharmaceuticals scored $30 million to push a program for nerve damage stemming from diabetes into phase 2. Treatments for the condition, called diabetic peripheral neuropathy, tend to focus on managing pain, but Regenacy’s approach aims to reverse the nerve damage that causes that pain. Thursday, March 26, 2020 Lisa Rojkjaer, M.D., has been named Viracta’s new chief medical officer as Nordic Nanovector adds interim replacement. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Swiss major Roche, already ramping up tests for the COVID-19 pandemic, isn’t taking its eye off of the infectious disease ball. Thursday, March 26, 2020 Over the years, more and more patients with cystic fibrosis have benefited from new drugs such as Vertex’s Trikafta. But there is still a subset of patients with certain mutations for whom those drugs don’t work. Enter ReCode Therapeutics, which raised $80 million to advance a treatment for cystic fibrosis driven by what’re called nonsense mutations. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Contract research organization PRA Health has launched a new mobile app aimed at tracking patients’ physical and psychological symptoms from COVID-19. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Several states are reporting only positive COVID-19 test results from private labs, a practice that paints a misleading picture of how fast the disease is spreading. Enrollment Showcase | | | Presented by: Global EMBA for Healthcare & the Life Sciences, University of Toronto Prepare to step up in your career, build the expertise you need to reshape your organization, and explore opportunities worldwide. |
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