Roche has sold off rights to inclacumab to Global Blood Therapeutics, which intends to develop the treatment for vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).
In a major boon for UK diagnostics group Owlstone Medical, GlaxoSmithKline is incorporating the firm’s Breath Biopsy platform into the clinical development programme for its novel, experimental respiratory drug danirixin.
UK diagnostics group Owlstone Medical has kicked off a 1,400 patient clinical trial assessing the potential of its FAIMS (Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometer) technology in the early detection of colorectal cancer, which it claims to be the world’s largest breath-based study into the disease.