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Event Highlights – March 25, 2025

Brain & Breakfast meeting in Norway discussed EU HTAR implications 

A meeting organized by PharmaLex and the Life Science Cluster in Norway on February 27 2025 brought together experts eager to share and learn more about the European Union’s Health Technology Assessment Regulation (HTAR), its requirements and challenges, and its adoption and impact.

Clinical Trials – March 25, 2025

Immunovia provides further positive data from the VERIFI study

Immunovia has announced additional results from the VERIFI study of its next-generation pancreatic cancer test, strengthening the company’s position as it prepares to launch the pancreatic cancer blood test commercially. 

Drug Development Pharma – March 24, 2025

New findings about Elypta’s urine test in kidney cancer follow-up

Elypta has announced that findings from the international AURORAX-0087A (AUR87A) study, the largest diagnostics study ever conducted on the most common type of kidney cancer, were presented today in a Plenary Game Changer Session at the 2025 European Association of Urology Congress.

Agreement – March 24, 2025

Novo Nordisk and the United Laboratories in license agreement for a GLP-1/GIP/glucagon triple receptor agonist

Novo Nordisk and the United Laboratories International Holdings Limited (TUL)’s wholly-owned subsidiary The United Bio-Technology have entered into an exclusive license agreement for UBT251, a triple agonist of the receptors for GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon in early-stage clinical development for the treatment of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases.

Global report – March 21, 2025

AstraZeneca to invest USD 2.5 billion in R&D centre in Beijing

AstraZeneca is establishing a new global strategic R&D centre in Beijing, its second in China and sixth worldwide.

Biotech Business – March 21, 2025

Alligator Bioscience announces FDA Orphan Drug designation

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to HLX22 (AC101), an anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of gastric cancer.

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Clinical Trials – March 25, 2025

Immunovia provides further positive data from the VERIFI study

Immunovia has announced additional results from the VERIFI study of its next-generation pancreatic cancer test, strengthening the company’s position as it prepares to launch the pancreatic cancer blood test commercially. 

Biotech Business – March 18, 2025

Oncorena receives FDA approval to initiate studies in the US

The FDA has approved the company’s IND application to initiate the Phase I/II study Oncorella-1.

CDMO – March 17, 2025

Anocca to start first in-human trial in advanced pancreatic cancer

The company has announced the authorization of its Clinical Trial Application (CTA) from the regulatory authorities in four European countries under the European Union’s (EU) harmonised framework, for VIDAR-1, with Germany acting as the reference state.

Clinical Trials – February 28, 2025

Evaxion extends phase 2 trial with personalized cancer vaccine

Evaxion Biotech will further enhance the data package from its ongoing phase 2 trial with the company’s lead asset EVX-01 by extending the trial from two to three years.

Clinical Trials – February 24, 2025

Medivir presents positive final phase 1b/2a data

Medivir has presented positive, final data from the phase 1b / 2a study of fostroxacitabine bralpamide (fostrox) + Lenvima in advanced liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma/HCC) at the EASL (European Association for the Study of the Liver) Liver Cancer Summit in Paris, France.

Clinical Trials – January 29, 2025

Herantis reports encouraging pharmacokinetic data

Herantis Pharma has announced an update of the ongoing Phase 1b clinical trial of HER-096.

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