Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine investigator leaves FDA advisory committee over conflict of interest Poxel posts phase 3 diabetes data ahead of approval decision Lumen bags U.S. grant for GI-focused COVID-19 antibody cocktail Versant's Monte Rosa reels in $96M to bankroll 'molecular glue' treatments for cancer, other diseases Novo Nordisk tees up phase 3 trial for once-weekly insulin LabCorp to roll out Resolution Bio's lung cancer liquid biopsy test Agios helps identify genes that allow cancer to escape the immune system Featured Story | By Ben Adams The FDA’s advisory committee chair has stepped down from reviewing the upcoming pandemic vaccines given her prominent role in Moderna’s late-stage COVID-19 test. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Poxel has shared the phase 3 data it hopes will secure approval for Type 2 diabetes drug imeglimin in Japan. The readouts link the oral oxidative phosphorylation blocker imeglimin to near- and long-term improvements when given as a monotherapy and in combination with other drugs. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Lumen Bioscience has received a federal grant to develop a treatment for gastrointestinal infection in COVID-19 patients. The money will support work on a biologic drug cocktail that Lumen thinks can be a scalable, inexpensive fix for the gastrointestinal symptoms that affect many people with COVID-19. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Creating drugs that harness the body’s protein-degrading processes is not a new idea; companies like Arvinas are using this approach to destroy disease-causing proteins rather than simply blocking their function. But Monte Rosa Therapeutics wants to take protein degradation in a different direction, and it’s just raised $96 million to do so. read more By Amirah Al Idrus People with Type 2 diabetes are no strangers to needles, with some injecting bolus insulin after meals, others injecting basal insulin once or twice a day, and others still doing both. Novo Nordisk is working on a once-weekly basal insulin that could cut down on these injections, and the phase 2 data look promising. read more By Conor Hale Under a partnership inked earlier this year, the clinical testing giant LabCorp will now begin rolling out a blood test for lung cancer developed by Resolution Bioscience. read more By Angus Liu Scientists at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with Agios Pharmaceuticals, used CRISPR to screen six genetically diverse mouse cancer cell lines. 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