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The biotech Thursday reported that second-quarter sales of its COVID shot dropped 94%. However, it expects $6 billion to $8 billion in revenue this year, up from a previous forecast of $5 billion.
Following a year-long legal battle, Illumina is dropping the intellectual property allegations against Guardant. The companies have also entered into a new long-term purchase and supply commitment.
The biopharma company reported sales of $2.24 billion in the second quarter for the cystic fibrosis treatment, beating analysts’ estimate, after it won FDA approval in children ages two to five in April.
In its second-quarter earnings reported Tuesday, Pfizer announced total revenues declined 54% to $12.7 billion, primarily due to a plummet in Paxlovid and Comirnaty sales.
Biogen’s $7.3 billion Reata acquisition and layoffs dominated this week’s news, while BMS and Roche reported second-quarter earnings and BioSpace looked at 12 late-stage neuro companies.
The British drugmaker’s rare disease subsidiary Alexion will take on a number of Pfizer’s preclinical gene therapy programs and technologies to advance its genomic medicines pipeline.
Despite beating analyst expectations, Takeda sustains a mid-stage defeat in a rare genetic disorder, leaving the fate of an investigational enzyme replacement therapy uncertain.
Revenue for 2023 is now expected to decline to the low single digits instead of the 2% growth projected. Leadership pointed to the company’s multiple myeloma drugs as the main drags on earnings.
Amid the impending drug pricing pressures from the Inflation Reduction Act, Roche is discontinuing a mid-stage hemophilia A gene therapy candidate and four early-stage hopefuls.
The company reported second-quarter revenue Wednesday that included $248.4 million of back royalties and associated interest related to the successful outcome of an arbitration case with J&J’s Janssen.