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PharmaShots Interview: Albert Labs’ Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson Shares Insights on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies

In an interview with PharmaShots, Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson, Chief Medical Officer of Albert Labs shared his views on the psychedelic therapies, the company's business model, and your plans for scaling the psychedelics therapies. Shots: Albert Labs will be the first psychedelics company to use an accelerated pathway, known as RWE studies, to swiftly provide access to patients…

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PharmaShots Interview: Apellis’ Federico Grossi Shares Insights on the Data in GA Presented at ARVO 2021

In an interview with PharmaShots, Apellis' Chief Medical Officer, Federico Grossi shares his views on the data presented at ARVO 2021. The studies support AI analytics as a tool to distinctly measure disease activity well as the therapeutic effect in GA. Shots: Apellis presented five oral presentations from an AI collaboration with the Ophthalmic Imaging Analysis (OPTIMA)…

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PharmaShots Interview: GSK’s Mike Crichton Shares Insights on the Approval of Benlysta in Europe

In an interview with PharmaShots, Mike Crichton, Senior Vice President, Global Therapy Area Head, Specialty & Primary Care at GSK shares his views on the European Commission's approval of Benlysta (belimumab) in combination with background immunosuppressive therapies for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis (LN). Shots: The European Commission approved the expanded use of GSK's…

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PharmaShots Interview: Maxwell Biosciences’ Dr. Gill Diamond and Joshua McClure Share Insights Novel Peptoids with Potent Antiviral Activity Against HSV-1 and SARS-CoV-2

In an interview with PharmaShots, Dr. Gill Diamond, Scientific Advisory Board Member and Joshua McClure, CEO and Co-founder of Maxwell Biosciences share their views on the news findings of the company published in MDI that demonstrated that several peptoids exhibit potent in vitro antiviral activity against both HSV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Shots: The studies showed that antiviral peptoids…

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PharmaShots Interview: bluebird bio’s Rich Colvin Shares Insights on the Skysona to Treat Early Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy

In an interview with PharmaShots, Rich Colvin, M.D., Ph.D., Interim Chief Medical Officer at bluebird bio shares his views on the Skysona and its working on CALD patients. Shots: If granted marketing authorization, Skysona would be the first approved one-time gene therapy for CALD which is a rare neurogenerative disease with typically childhood onset The CHMP opinion…

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Insights+ Key Biosimilars Events of May 2021

Insights+ Key Biosimilars Events of May 2021

Biosimilars are developed to be highly similar versions of approved biologics in terms of safety, purity, and potency Biosimilars are expected to be a cost-effective alternative to the high-priced branded biologics, offering significant and much-needed cost savings to both payers and the patients During the month of May, Samsung initiated patient enrollment in the P-III…

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PharmaShots Interview: Daiichi Sankyo’s Ken Keller Shares Insights on NICE Recommendation for Enhertu in HER2 Positive Breast Cancer

In an interview with PharmaShots, Ken Keller, President and Chief Executive Officer at Daiichi Sankyo and Global Head of the Daiichi Sankyo Oncology Business shared his views on the NICE CDF recommendation for Enhertu in unresectable or metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer and the company's growth and pipeline. Shots: The recommendation from NICE is based on the…

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PharmaShots Interview: Aurinia’s Neil Solomons Shares Insights on the Lupkynis

In an interview with PharmaShots, Neil Solomons, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Aurinia shared his views on the data of Lupkynis (voclosporin) presented at the National Kidney Foundation 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings. Shots: New data analysis from the AURORA and AURA clinical studies shows that Aurinia's therapy demonstrated efficacy across all LN biopsy classes. These data show that treatment…

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PharmaShots Interview: Abbott’s Neil Moat Shares Insights on the Next Generation TriClip Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair System

In an interview with PharmaShots, Neil Moat, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Abbott's Structural Heart Business shares his views on the CE mark approval of first-of-its-kind TriClip device. Shots: The new iteration of the device, called TriClip G4, offers new clip sizes and an enhanced leaflet grasping feature for physicians to further customize treatment to the complex tricuspid valve…

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PharmaShots Interview: Medicenna’s Dr. Fahar Merchant Shares Insights on the Bispecific Superkines

In an interview with PharmaShots, Dr. Fahar Merchant, CEO of Medicenna shares his views on the data of a new type of interleukin called bispecific Superkines, presented at AACR 2021   Shots: Bispecific Superkines can attack cold tumors, weakening the protection given to it by the tumor microenvironment and revealing it to the immune system Medicenna focuses on…

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