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Infigratinib topped “even the most optimistic expectations” for efficacy and safety in the late-stage PROPEL 3 study in achondroplasia, Truist Securities analysts said Thursday.
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Analysts, investors and scientists are eager for Biogen’s 2026 BIIB080 readout. Even if successful, executives warn that there are many more steps before the Alzheimer’s therapy could reach the market.
With a clutch of key data and planned regulatory applications this year from Avidity Biosciences, REGENXBIO and Capricor Therapeutics, CureDuchenne CSO Michael Kelly sees “momentum” in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy pipeline, as Sarepta’s Elevidys leaves the door open.
After advancing in lockstep through the pandemic, the fortunes of the biotechs have diverged as their use of COVID-19 windfalls has taken shape.
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Eli Lilly has signed a multi-year contract with animal genomics biotech Fauna Bio to use its artificial intelligence platform to discover drug targets for obesity in a deal worth nearly half a billion dollars.
Under the companies’ agreement, a previously disclosed option exercise fee of $75 million has been reduced to $10 million and the remaining pre-option development milestone has been removed.
In a Phase II study, Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ investigational fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor JZP150 did not significantly improve post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms compared to placebo.
The company is ending its program evaluating antibody-drug conjugate tusamitamab ravtansine after a non-small cell lung cancer trial did not meet a primary endpoint.
The biotech’s investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment showed positive safety and tolerability with no serious adverse events in a mid-stage study of people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now designated as a Tech Hub by the White House, Alabama’s nonprofit Southern Research is winnowing its focus and investing in healthcare solutions.
Gene therapy company uniQure announced Tuesday “ongoing evidence” of a clinical benefit for its Huntington’s disease treatment. However, investors were not impressed as the stock dropped nearly 20%.
On this episode of the Weekly: Biden administration puts pressure on the biopharma industry; renewed interest in psychedelics after MindMed announces LSD-based candidate meets primary endpoint; bluebird changes its tune.
The competition between Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine and Pfizer’s Prevnar series of vaccines is intensifying after the regulator granted priority review to the former’s BLA for V116.
A court in Germany on Tuesday nullified one of CureVac’s intellectual property rights in a patent case against BioNTech. However, court proceedings involving seven other patent rights will continue.