VBI Vaccines Inc., a biopharma company specializing in immunology, announced that its cancer immunotherapy vaccine candidate, VBI-1901, has begun a Phase 2b trial in patients with first recurrence glioblastoma.
4D Molecular Therapeutics has begun the Dose Confirmation stage of their Phase 2 SPECTRA trial, enrolling their first patient. The trial evaluates intravitreal 4D-150 for treating diabetic macular edema.
Biotech company Cidara Therapeutics is developing drug-Fc conjugate immunotherapies for serious diseases. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, has given Cidara a go-ahead for CD388 (JNJ-0953), a universal prevention solution for influenza A and B.
Verismo Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company specializing in CAR-T therapies, has initiated the dosing of the first patient in their STAR-101 clinical trial.
VBI Vaccines Inc. publicized that its strategic HBV collaborator, Brii Biosciences announced preliminary group-level unmasked 36-week data from a mid-term examination of a randomly assigned, placebo-controlled, and double-concealed Phase 2 investigation of BRII-179 (VBI-2601).