Drug Development
In this episode of Denatured, as part of our series on the European life sciences investment ecosystem, you’ll be hearing from Ksenija Pavletic, partner and chief commercial officer at Jeito Capital and Thierry Laugel, managing partner at Kurma Partners. We dive into France’s biotech ecosystem and what still needs to happen for more early innovation to translate into investable, scalable biotech.
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Partners Summit Therapeutics and Akeso are expected to steal the show at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual conference with data from their potential Keytruda rival, alongside Revolution Medicine’s groundbreaking pancreatic cancer candidate and other assets that could reshape patient care.
The tragic tale of TIGIT is well known. However, RIPK1, myc, STING and alpha-synuclein have also left a trail of failed clinical trials, canceled partnerships and sunk investments in their wake.
Analysts homed in on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy type 1 assets during first quarter earnings as major players like REGENXBIO and Novartis as well as Dyne, Wave, Solid and Sarepta near the regulatory finish line.
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The regulatory filing puts the company alongside Vertex and CRISPR, which also await FDA approval for their SCD gene therapy.
Vedanta will use the funds to advance its lead asset VE303 in clostridioides difficile infection and support the development of another candidate in ulcerative colitis.
Govorestat failed its primary composite measure but showed signals of efficacy, leading the company to push forward with an NDA.
The partial clinical hold follows Foghorn’s voluntary pause of the study and is due to one patient developing irregular heartbeat following treatment with FHD-609.
Eplontersen halted ATTRv-PN disease progression and improved quality of life through 66 weeks. The drug has a PDUFA date of Dec. 22, 2023.
AbbVie shared more positive results for its migraine prevention drug, Qulipta, just three days after FDA approval to expand its label.
The checkpoint inhibitor is approved for several cancers in China, but after an indefinite FDA delay last summer, BeiGene’s partner Novartis still awaits its first U.S. approval.
The leaked data show that Carvykti cuts the risk of disease relapse by 74% versus standard chemotherapy regimens.
Lilly investigators said they hoped to differentiate their Phase I candidate from the competitive KRAS space by making it the first to gain approval as a first-line treatment.
The checkpoint inhibitor improved patient outcomes in three cancer trials, according to results presented at the AACR meeting.