Sentences with phrase «experimental drug candidates»

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Merck is the latest company to weather bad news in the Alzheimer's drug race, halting a late - stage trial yesterday in an experimental amyloid - targeting candidate called verubecestat after a data monitoring committee said there was «virtually no chance of finding a positive clinical effect,» Reuters reported.

That's particularly unfortuante for Cerecor seeing as CERC - 501 is the company's lead drug candidate — and the news comes just days after Cerecor announced that a separate experimental depression drug called CERC - 301 had also failed in the clinic.

Among its top holdings, Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI) was up more than 11 %, continuing a run that has helped the stock double in price since the end of August following positive data on late - stage experimental schizophrenia drug candidate ITI - 007.

Many Ebola researchers say they, too, would eagerly try the antibodies — or one of the promising candidate drugs, or an experimental Ebola vaccine.

His team looked at an experimental drug called PTC124, which the firefly luciferase assay had identified as a promising candidate for treating stop - sign forms of cystic fibrosis and which is now being tested in clinical trials.

A follow - up structure - based discovery campaign to develop safer opioids identified PZM21 as both a potential drug candidate and experimental tool to find other safer opioids.

Emulate will provide its technology along with the scientific expertise to implement a range of experimental designs for evaluating Roche's drug candidates.

venture capital fund formed a joint venture with a biotech company hoping to quickly advance three of the biotech's drug candidates through Phase I. And AstraZeneca and Merck are each contributing an experimental cancer drug candidate for a novel early - stage clinical program.