Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER) today announced positive results from a pre-specified interim analysis of its ongoing Phase 1b clinical trial of OMS906, the company’s lead MASP-3 inhibitor, in ...
Global understanding of complement has shifted and developed since the 21st century: from our idea of a blood-based antibiotic system to a global regulator of immunity and tissue homeostasis. Recent ...
C5b initiates the membrane attack pathway, which results in the membrane attack complex (MAC), consisting of C5b, C6, C7, C8, and polymeric C9. MAC is the cytolytic endproduct of the complement ...
AJMC ®: How has treatment of complement-driven diseases changed since 2007, when the first complement inhibitor, eculizumab, was approved? SMITH: The development of eculizumab followed our ...
Left untreated, PNH could cause death in about half of patients within 10 years of diagnosis. The primary cause of PNH-related mortality is thromboembolic events. A host of anti-complement strategies, ...
The treatment pipeline for generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) continues to be active, a consequence of the ongoing progress in knowledge that led to approval of six new drugs for the disease. In ...
Following 2 doses of OMS906, all patients achieved an increase in hemoglobin of ³ 4.0 g/dL, with a mean hemoglobin change from baseline of 4.75 g/dL (p < 0.001) Following 3 doses of OMS906, mean ...