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Xaira Therapeutics emerged from stealth on Tuesday with plans to tap the biological equivalent of artificial intelligence image generation tools designed to create molecules that hit hard-to-drug targets.
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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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The Swiss pharma is one step closer to bringing Lutathera into the front-line setting, with data from the Phase III NETTER-2 study showing that the radiotherapy met its primary endpoint.
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The losing streak continues for Merck and Eisai with their Keytruda-Lenvima combination failing to improve progression-free survival and overall survival in two late-stage lung cancer studies.
Despite meeting the primary endpoint and eliciting endoscopic improvements in ulcerative colitis, Morphic Therapeutic’s investigational pill underwhelmed investors with its stock plummeting.
ARS Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics and Taysha Gene Therapies this week got stark reminders of the difficulties in getting treatments through the regulator’s approval process.
The companies, which are collaborating on a drug combination to treat locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer, announced Friday that their Phase III trial met dual primary endpoints.
The companies’ antibody-drug conjugate improved progression-free survival with a “trend in improvement” for overall survival in patients with HR-positive, HER2-low or negative breast cancer.
The company’s treatment for IgA nephropathy, sparsentan, failed to meet statistical significance by a measure of kidney function in a head-to-head confirmatory study versus irbesartan.