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While GSK did not provide a specific reason for returning Wave Life Sciences’ WVE-006, the decision comes after the asset in September 2025 came below analyst expectations in a Phase Ib/IIa AATD study.
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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Attendance at the Biotech CEO Sisterhood’s annual photo of women leaders and allies in Union Square doubled this year. There’s still more work to do.
After winning a surprise approval for its hereditary angioedema drug Ekterly, KalVista is confident the oral offering will capture the lion’s share of the market for on-demand use.
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Industry experts say a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus will either be ready this fall, at the end of the year or 18 months from now, depending on the vaccine and how they define “ready.”
The round was led by Seroba Life Sciences, a European venture capital firm in Dublin.
The company announced its Covance drug development business was launching COVID-19 Clinical Trial Connect in the U.S. to help people find information on taking part in clinical trials related to COVID-19.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for June 3, 2020.
Of the Phase III trial, Fauci indicated that the majority of trial participants will be between the ages of 18 and 55, but will include elderly Americans that are most at risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
U.K.-based NodThera is building up its war chest to develop therapies for diseases driven by chronic inflammation.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for June 2, 2020.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn recently gave a speech to the Alliance for a Stronger FDA. In it, he suggested that some of the changes forced on the agency by the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to become permanent.
Emergent BioSolutions, a contract development and manufacturing organization, announced it had signed a public-private partnership under Operation Warp Speed worth about $628 million.
Cell and gene therapies must scale up on an industrial level if they are to deliver their full potential to patients worldwide, according to speakers at the International Society of Cell Therapy meeting, ISCT Paris 2020 Virtual, May 29.