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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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Diabetes and obesity remain a problem, even during a pandemic. Eli Lilly is continuing to develop the 13 diabetes drugs it has in Phase I through Phase III trials, with data from various trials planned for release throughout the coming year.
Weeks after Mammoth Biosciences announced its CRISPR-based diagnostics test for COVID-19 had a high degree of specificity even for asymptomatic patients, the company has struck a deal with GSK to accelerate development of the test in hopes of getting them in consumer hands as soon as possible.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 20, 2020.
The company reported overall positive results for both efficacy and safety, although not a lot of details were released on the actual data.
With its proprietary, top-down view of the immune system and purportedly the world’s largest proprietary data devoted to clinical immunologics, it aims to catalyze significant improvements in disease detection, diagnosis and treatment.
As part of the agreement, Phlow will help build the United States’ first Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve, a long-term, national stockpile to secure key ingredients used to manufacture the most essential medicines in the United States.
Research conducted under the collaboration will support FDA objectives to explore the natural history of the disease, as well as treatment and diagnostic patterns through the use of relevant and new data sources.
The companies will leverage Vividion’s proteomics screening platform and small molecule library to target novel E3 ligases in addition to a variety of oncology and immunology therapy targets.
Expected to launch in June or July, the study plans to test as many as 325,000 people to learn how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading nationally, according to Reuters, reporting before the official announcement.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 19, 2020.