CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGIO), a leader in the field of cellular metabolism pioneering therapies for rare diseases, today reported new data from the ongoing extension study assessing the long-term efficacy and safety of PYRUKYND® (mitapivat) in adults with pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency who had participated in one of the pivotal studies, ACTIVATE and ACTIVATE-T, conducted in not regularly transfused and regularly transfused adu

HOLON, Israel, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compugen Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGEN), a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company and a pioneer in computational target discovery, announced today publication of abstracts by ESMO-IO showing that at the time of abstract data cutoff, Compugen's COM701 (anti-PVRIG) in dual and triple combination with nivolumab ± BMS-986207 demonstrated preliminary anti-tumor activity and immune activation in platinum resistant ovarian cancer patients and was well tolerated.

BOTHELL, Wash., Nov. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Athira Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHA), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to restore neuronal health and slow neurodegeneration, today announced the presentation of additional biomarker data from the completed, exploratory ACT-AD Phase 2 study of fosgonimeton (ATH-1017) in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at the 15th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference.

Individuals previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, still benefit from vaccination, gaining 60% to 94% protection against reinfection, depending on the variant. A new study led by Katrine Finderup Nielsen at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, reports these findings November 22 in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. During the recent pandemic, vaccination has been one of the best tools available for curbing the spread of COVID-19. People infected with the virus are

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Castle Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), a company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care, today announced new data showing how the Company’s DecisionDx®-SCC test can provide objective, independent and significant risk-stratification for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) tumors with uncertainty in differentiation status. The data were shared in an oral presentation given at the American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) 59t

PENNINGTON, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing intratumoral immunotherapies that stimulate the patient's immune system to target cancer cells and eradicate disease, today announced data from the Phase 2 KEYNOTE-695 clinical trial. This global, open-label single-arm trial is evaluating TAVO™, OncoSec's proprietary IL-12 encoding plasmid delivered by intratumoral elect

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NGM Bio) (Nasdaq: NGM), a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing transformative therapeutics for patients, today announced that an abstract related to the Company’s lead myeloid reprogramming and checkpoint inhibition program, NGM707, has been accepted for presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology Immuno-Oncology (ESMO I-O) Annual Congress, which will take place Dec

NEWARK, Calif., Nov. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rain Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGS: RAIN), (Rain), a late-stage biotechnology company developing precision oncology therapeutics with a lead clinical candidate, milademetan, an oral, small molecule inhibitor of the MDM2-p53 complex that reactivates p53, today announced preliminary data in the multicenter, single arm, open-label, Phase 2 basket trial evaluating milademetan, an oral mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) inhibitor, for the treatment of MDM2-

NEWARK, Calif., Nov. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAY), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and providing access to innovative therapies for patients with liver and other chronic diseases, today announced encouraging seladelpar data in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) that are being presented at The Liver Meeting® of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), in Washington, DC (November 4th – 8th). In a

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silence Therapeutics plc, Nasdaq: SLN (“Silence” or “the Company”), an experienced and innovative biotechnology company committed to transforming people’s lives by silencing diseases through precision engineered medicines, today presented data from an analysis of its APOLLO phase 1 single dose study of SLN360, an investigational short interfering ribonucleic acid (“siRNA”), in healthy adults with high lipoprotein(a) (“Lp(a)”), a key genetic risk factor for heart disease,