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By Terri Somers Union-Tribune Staff Writer 9:01 a.m. April 7, 2008 A one-year scientific collaboration that included the University of California San Diego and the tiny local biotechnology company TargeGen has moved a treatment for a potentially fatal blood disease into human trials at record speed. The experimental drug is also the first in clinical… Read More »UCSD, TARGEGEN TEAM-UP ON BLOOD DISEASE TREATMENT

Wilmington, Del. — (Business Wire) — Incyte Corporation (Nasdaq: INCY) today reported full year and fourth quarter 2007 financial results, and announced its 2008 financial guidance and key objectives and plans for its rapidly expanding clinical pipeline. Paul A. Friedman, M.D., President and CEO of Incyte, state, “Over the past year, we’ve worked intensively to… Read More »INCYTE REPORTS PROGRESS IN MULTIPLE CLINICAL PROGRAMS AND EXPANDS JAK INHIBITOR PROGRAM

03/18/2008 Cytopia Limited (ASX:CYT) has selected CYT387, a selective and potent JAK2 inhibitor, for formal preclinical development to treat myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs). This follows extensive laboratory experimentation and includes the recent demonstration of activity in an in-vivo model of myeloproliferative disease. Myeloproliferative disorders are a group of diseases including myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera (PV) and essential… Read More »CYTOPIA NOMINATES JAK2 CLINICAL CANDIDATE FOR MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS

San Diego, CA – January 31, 2008 – TargeGen, Inc. today announced that the Company has started a multi-center Phase I/II clinical trial of TG101348, an oral, potent, and highly selective inhibitor of JAK2 in patients with myeloproliferative diseases. The V617F mutation of JAK2 is implicated in the pathogenesis of certain myeloproliferative diseases, including polycythemia… Read More »TARGEGEN ANNOUNCES INITIATION OF CLINICAL TRIAL OF JAK2 INHIBITOR TG101348 IN MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE PATIENTS

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Australian and New York based company Cytopia Limited announced today that its lead JAK2 inhibitor compound CYT387 has demonstrated potent activity in cells isolated from patients with myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs). MPDs are a series of diseases where there is over-production of particular cells within the blood stream. One of… Read More »JAK2 INHIBITOR SHOWS POTENT ACTIVITY IN CELLS FROM MPD PATIENTS

Published: December 12, 2007PRNewswire-USNewswire Atlanta, Dec. 5 — The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world’s largest professional society of blood specialists, is honoring three scientists who have made notable contributions to the genetic understanding of disease. Carlo Croce, MD, will receive the Henry M. Stratton Medal, intended to honor an individual with a distinguished… Read More »TOP SCIENTISTS TO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS FROM THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY

12/10/2007 2:06:40 PM Monday afternoon, Exelixis, Inc. (EXEL), a developer of therapies for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases, announced data from an ongoing Phase 1 trial of XL019 to treat patients with myelofibrosis, a myeloproliferative disorder, or MPD. The primary objective of the trial is to determine the safety and tolerability of… Read More »EXELIXIS REPORTS DATA FROM ONGOING PHASE 1 STUDY OF XL019 TO TREAT MYELOFIBROSIS – UPDATE

Sunday December 10, 2007 8:00 am ET ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Both the cause and cure for polycythemia vera, a disorder of uncontrolled blood cell production, remain elusive, but researchers from the University of Florence, Italy, may be a step closer to both. Their findings are being presented today during the 48th Annual… Read More »GENE MUTATION PREDICTS OUTCOME IN BLOOD DISORDER

Novartis will collaborate with Incyte on the further development of two of Incyte Corp.’s compounds including the JAK2 Inhibitor INCB18424 currently in Phase III of the clinical trials process. If approved, this will be the first FDA approved treatment for myelfibrosis. For more information: Press release BioWorld

By Mike Nagle 24/05/2007 – At a time when pharma productivity is declining, anticancer specialists Exelixis has started more Phase I clinical trials this year than any other company. The US biotech has today filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to US regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is the company’s… Read More »EXELIXIS WINNING PHASE I RACE