Drug Trials News for January 2011

Drug Trials News Archive

GSK and Prosensa announce start of Phase III study of investigational Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy medication GSK and Prosensa announce start of Phase III study of investigational Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy medication

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Prosensa today announced that the first patient has commenced treatment in the Phase III study investigating GSK2402968, in ambulant boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), who have a dystrophin gene mutation amenable to an exon 51 skip

Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca Collaborate to Trial Combinations of New Cancer Drugs Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca Collaborate to Trial Combinations of New Cancer Drugs

CANCER RESEARCH UK’s drug development office (DDO) has signed a Strategic Combinations Alliance with AstraZeneca to take combinations of experimental cancer drugs into early phase clinical trials.The move will increase patient access to trials of potential new cancer treatments that combine molecularly targeted experimental drugs developed and owned by AstraZeneca. The trials will also test these combinations alongside conventional chemotherapy radiotherapy and other novel agents.