Christmas in the Hospital: Gareth’s Story
Gareth Crabb is a thoughtful and caring six-year-old boy from Swansea, U.K. He is spending his second Christmas in the hospital this year, as he has anaplastic large cell…
Gareth Crabb is a thoughtful and caring six-year-old boy from Swansea, U.K. He is spending his second Christmas in the hospital this year, as he has anaplastic large cell…
According to a story from Business Wire, the biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's drug abatacept (marketed…
According to a story from Myeloma Research News, the first patient has been dosed with an experimental allogeneic (donor derived) CAR-T cell therapy called UCARTCS1 as part of a phase…
Background Novartis ended all of their gene therapy programs which were oncology related in 2016. Unfortunately, that meant an end to many programs that still had potential. This included cell…
Lupus Nephritis Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most common complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It affects approximately 100,000 patients in the United States alone. Basically, the patient's…
About Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GvHD) Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GvHD) occurs when a patient's body rejects cells which have been transplanted. For instance, it may develop following a stem cell transplant or a bone marrow transplant. The…
According to a publication from BusinessWire, the Maryland-based pharmaceutical company OncoImmune, Inc. has announced successful phase 2 trial results for its acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) drug CD24Fc. Graft…
Cynata Therapeutics, an Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company, has announced positive results from a Phase 1 clinical trial of CYP-001, the CymerusTM mesenchymal stem cell product candidate. The study…
Kalytera Therapeutics, Inc. has announced that a meeting with the Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research of the US FDA is planned for Tuesday, 31st July this year. The purpose of…
According to a story from Financial Buzz, the pharmaceutical company Elsayls Biotech is planning to submit a proposal to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in order to conduct a clinical…
Mesoblast Limited announced the primary endpoint success of a phase three trial on February 21st. The drug tested aims to help treat steroid refractory acute graft versus host disease. No…
According to a story from wqad.com, transplants are responsible for saving thousands of lives. Often, transplants are the last resort in diseases that have become to severe to treat effectively.…