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FDA accepts ZIOPHARM's IND for ZIN ATI-001 to treat melanoma

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., a drug development company employing small molecule and synthetic biology approaches to cancer therapy, announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has accepted the Company's investigational new drug application to begin clinical study of ZIN ATI-001, a novel DNA-based therapeutic candidate also known as Ad-RTS-IL-12 + AL, in oncology.

10 Jun 2011

Neoprobe's Lymphoseek Phase 3 trial data presented at SNM annual meeting

Neoprobe Corporation, a diversified developer of innovative oncology surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that full results from the NEO3-05 study, demonstrating Lymphoseek met all primary and secondary endpoints in intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) procedures.

10 Jun 2011

Abbott reports positive interim results from LCIG Phase III open-label study for advanced Parkinson's disease

Interim efficacy and safety results from a long-term, 54-week, Phase III open-label study of Abbott's investigational treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease showed that patients treated with levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG) for 12 weeks reported a decrease in "off" time and an increase in "on" time without troublesome dyskinesias.

9 Jun 2011

Promising results from VX-770 and VX-809 Phase 2 study for cystic fibrosis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation today announced promising results from an ongoing Phase 2 study evaluating combinations of VX-770 and VX-809, potential medicines designed to treat the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis.

9 Jun 2011

ImmunoCellular expands ICT-107 Phase II clinical trial for glioblastoma multiforme

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, today announced the expansion of sites for its Phase II clinical trial of ICT-107. ICT-107 is the Company's dendritic cell based cancer vaccine candidate targeting multiple tumor antigens for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

9 Jun 2011

Vertex announces interim results from VX-770 and VX-809 Phase 2 study on cystic fibrosis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced interim results from the first part of a Phase 2 study designed to evaluate multiple combination regimens of VX-770 and VX-809, Vertex's lead medicines in development that aim to treat the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis.

9 Jun 2011

TD2, Imaging Endpoints team up to enable rapid development of anti-cancer drugs

TGen Drug Development (TD2) and Imaging Endpoints have teamed up to enable the rapid development of anti-cancer drugs and deliver them faster to patients in need, the companies announced today.

9 Jun 2011

Patient enrollment complete in cilengitide Phase III study against glioblastoma

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that patient enrollment in the global pivotal Phase III clinical study CENTRIC has been completed.

9 Jun 2011

Neurologix reports new results from NLX-P101 Phase 2 trial against Parkinson's disease

Neurologix, Inc. announced today several new results from the Company's successful Phase 2 clinical trial for its novel, investigational gene therapy NLX-P101 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) as part of a comprehensive presentation of study findings to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.

9 Jun 2011

FDA accepts Adamis IND for APC-100 to treat prostate cancer

Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that the FDA has accepted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for APC-100 to treat prostate cancer (PCa).

9 Jun 2011

Positive results from RXi's NeuVax-trastuzumab Phase 2 trial on breast cancer presented at ASCO

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative therapies addressing major unmet medical needs using targeted biotherapeutics, presented Phase 2 efficacy results for NeuVax in combination with trastuzumab at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.

8 Jun 2011

Intercell, Merck terminate V710 Phase II/III trial against S. aureus infection

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) today announced that following a detailed analysis of the data from the Phase II/III clinical trial evaluating V710, an investigational vaccine for the prevention of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infection, the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has unanimously recommended termination of the study.

8 Jun 2011

New palonosetron-aprepitant trial data on chemotherapy induced nausea, vomiting presented at EHA

New data presented at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2011 Annual Meeting in London show better control of nausea and vomiting with the combination palonosetron plus aprepitant when compared to granisetron in patients receiving multiday highly emetogenic conditioning chemotherapy regimens - Significantly higher the complete response during the acute, delayed and overall periods.

8 Jun 2011

Pharmasset expands PSI-7977 clinical trial for treatment of chronic hepatitis C

Pharmasset, Inc. announced today the addition of three treatment cohorts to the ELECTRON trial of PSI-7977, a nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV).

8 Jun 2011

Millennium reports results from two VELCADE based combination studies against multiple myeloma

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today reported results from two studies of VELCADE (bortezomib) for Injection based combinations in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM).

8 Jun 2011

Quest conducts first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, provides corporate updates

Quest PharmaTech Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer, announced today that it conducted its first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, Italy.

8 Jun 2011

Vaccine candidate produces immune response to antigen in all strains of influenza A

A universal influenza vaccine targeting a protein common to all strains of influenza A has safely produced an immune response in humans. If proven effective, the vaccine could eliminate the practice of creating a new flu vaccine annually to match predicted strains, with major implications for global health.

8 Jun 2011

Topline results from 4SC vidofludimus Phase IIb trial against rheumatoid arthritis

4SC AG, a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced topline results from its randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase IIb clinical trial COMPONENT in RA.

8 Jun 2011

Cabozantinib shows early promise in treatment of prostate cancer spread to the bone

A new drug to treat prostate cancer shows early promise, particularly against tumors that have spread to the bone, a multi-site study shows.

8 Jun 2011

MSU professor to lead acetazolamide clinical trial on idiopathic intracranial hypertension

A rare but increasingly more common disease striking overweight, younger women is the focus of a clinical trial at Michigan State University, where an osteopathic physician is testing the effectiveness of a certain drug against a potentially blindness-causing ailment.

8 Jun 2011

Drug Trial News

FDA accepts ZIOPHARM's IND for ZIN ATI-001 to treat melanoma

Neoprobe's Lymphoseek Phase 3 trial data presented at SNM annual meeting

Abbott reports positive interim results from LCIG Phase III open-label study for advanced Parkinson's disease

Promising results from VX-770 and VX-809 Phase 2 study for cystic fibrosis

ImmunoCellular expands ICT-107 Phase II clinical trial for glioblastoma multiforme

Vertex announces interim results from VX-770 and VX-809 Phase 2 study on cystic fibrosis

TD2, Imaging Endpoints team up to enable rapid development of anti-cancer drugs

Patient enrollment complete in cilengitide Phase III study against glioblastoma

Neurologix reports new results from NLX-P101 Phase 2 trial against Parkinson's disease

FDA accepts Adamis IND for APC-100 to treat prostate cancer

Positive results from RXi's NeuVax-trastuzumab Phase 2 trial on breast cancer presented at ASCO

Intercell, Merck terminate V710 Phase II/III trial against S. aureus infection

New palonosetron-aprepitant trial data on chemotherapy induced nausea, vomiting presented at EHA

Pharmasset expands PSI-7977 clinical trial for treatment of chronic hepatitis C

Millennium reports results from two VELCADE based combination studies against multiple myeloma

Quest conducts first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, provides corporate updates

Vaccine candidate produces immune response to antigen in all strains of influenza A

Topline results from 4SC vidofludimus Phase IIb trial against rheumatoid arthritis

Cabozantinib shows early promise in treatment of prostate cancer spread to the bone

MSU professor to lead acetazolamide clinical trial on idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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