Replay Holdings LLC and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that the FDA has cleared the IND application for PRAME TCR/IL-15 NK (SY-307), an engineered T-cell receptor natural killer (TCR-NK) cell therapy for relapsed/refractory myeloid malignancies.
The FDA has cleared Prime Medicine Inc.’s IND application for PM-359 for the treatment of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), enabling initiation of a phase I/II trial in the U.S.
Hookipa Pharma Inc. has received clearance from the U.S. FDA for its IND application for HB-700, a novel arenaviral therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of KRAS-mutated cancers. The HB-700 program is a replicating 2-vector therapy designed to treat KRAS-mutated lung, colorectal, pancreatic and other cancers by targeting the five most prevalent KRAS mutations in these disease indications.
The FDA has cleared Oncoc4 Inc.’s IND application for ONC-841, a potential first-in-class Siglec-10-blocking antibody for the treatment of solid tumors.
The U.S. FDA has cleared Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc’s IND to initiate a phase I first-in-human, clinical trial of ORX-750 for the treatment of narcolepsy.
YS Biopharma Co. Ltd. has received clinical trial approval by the Philippine Food and Drug Administration to begin a phase I trial of its YS-HBV-002 immunotherapeutic vaccine, designed to treat chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The trial will begin in the Philippines in June.
The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to the active ingredient in Soligenix Inc.’s Marvax, a heat stable subunit protein vaccine of recombinantly expressed Marburg marburgvirus (MARV) glycoprotein, for the prevention and post-exposure prophylaxis against MARV infection.
BLR Bio LLC announced that the U.S. FDA has granted orphan drug designation to BLR-200, the company’s investigational therapy for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Lamassu Biotech Inc. has announced that its IND for SA53-OS has been cleared by the FDA in the U.S. The planned phase I/IIa trials will investigate the genetically targeted therapy that blocks the MDM2 protein, a key regulator of the tumor suppressor p53 gene.