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With its lawsuit filed against Pfizer and BioNTech, the British multinational biopharma has joined the high-profile patent battle over mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
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Through substantial leadership turnover and workforce cuts, the FDA has continued to support the advanced therapy sector, actively working to remove obstacles to innovation.
With immunology and inflammation blockbusters like AbbVie’s Skyrizi and Rinvoq reeling in nearly $7 billion combined in the third quarter, the pipeline-in-a-product strategy has never been more attractive.
The cholesterol-lowering drug is part of a suite of medicines that also includes MariTide and that Amgen Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton hopes will make the company the “undisputed leader in the management of cardiometabolic risk for patients” by 2030.
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Following disappointing results in a mid-stage social anxiety disorder study, the Australian biotech’s investigational ion channel modulator demonstrated promising effects in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
After a groundbreaking year in the Alzheimer’s space, Parkinson’s disease researchers express renewed hope based on a greater biological understanding of neurodegeneration.
If approved by the FDA, Karuna Therapeutics’ investigational agonist of muscarinic acetylcholine 1 receptors M1 and M4 would provide the first new mechanism of action for schizophrenia patients in decades.
The companies, which have been partners for a decade on various research programs, are pooling their efforts in two early-stage programs for Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases using RNA-targeting medicines.
Non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with the drug combination saw a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival compared to AstraZeneca’s osimertinib.
After picking up magrolimab in a $4.9 billion purchase of Forty Seven, a second Phase III study is being discontinued for the anti-CD47 antibody, this time in acute myeloid leukemia.
Pivotal clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis are expected to read out this fall. Here’s a closer look.
Following promising results in major depressive disorder, Alto Neuroscience on Tuesday reported positive data for its investigational drug ALTO-100 in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Shares were up over 60% in premarket trading on news that the company’s anti-FcRn antibody exhibited dose-dependent reductions in IgG levels, drivers of inflammation in many autoimmune diseases.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need for local production of vaccines. Now, German pharma company BioNTech has said it will start manufacturing vaccines in Africa.