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Kalvista Pharmaceuticals Inc. is promising to “change the paradigm” in the treatment of hereditary angioedema, after announcing positive phase III data for its oral on-demand kallikrein inhibitor sebetralstat. Rather than waiting four to five hours to self-administer therapy, as is the case for approved injectable on-demand therapies, there was a median time to dosing of 10 minutes after the start of an attack in the 136-patient placebo-controlled trial.

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One of the major changes in the revised regulations included tags for which many skilled nursing facilities were not adequately prepared to address, specifically F699, which addresses the provision of “trauma-informed care.”

With Adverum Biotechnologies Inc.’s preliminary safety and efficacy data made public from the ongoing Luna phase II trial testing gene therapy ixoberogene soroparvovec (ixo-vec) in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Wall Street promptly began stacking the results against those of competitors. CEO Laurent Fischer pointed out that ixo-vec boasts the “highest rate of injection-free patients of any study of any program at any dose.”

Synlogic Inc. jolted Wall Street with news that the firm is scrapping for futility Synpheny-3, its pivotal study with labafenogene marselecobac (SYNB-1934) for phenylketonuria, and will evaluate strategic options. Shares of the Cambridge, Mass.-based firm (NASDAQ:SYBX) fell 48.7%, or $1.68, to end Feb. 9 at $1.77. Synlogic will cease operations and reduce its workforce by more than 90%, retaining only certain employees to help with the wind-down.