Andy Studna is an editor for Applied Clinical Trials, an MJH Life Sciences sister publication.
Supreme Court Upholds NIH Funding Cuts Affecting DEI in Clinical Research
August 22nd 2025The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to allow the Trump administration’s NIH funding cuts to continue, impacting more than 1,700 medical research grants in areas including heart disease, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, and mental health.
Daiichi Sankyo and Merck Pull Back Patritumab Deruxtecan Biologics License Application
May 29th 2025For the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer, patritumab deruxtecan did not meet statistical significance for overall survival in the HERTHENA-Lung02 trial.
FDA Outlines Updated Requirement for Placebo-Controlled Trials in Vaccine Research
May 21st 2025In an article recently published by The New England Journal of Medicine, FDA higher-ups Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH; and Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, wrote that any new COVID-19 vaccine must now be evaluated in placebo-controlled studies.