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Bayer cut its C-suite nearly in half amid a massive restructuring. Meanwhile, the U.S. government says it will pay for Wegovy for patients with heart disease.
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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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Thursday, Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi also became the first disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s to win traditional approval. CMS coverage is expected to begin immediately.
The European Medicines Agency recently flagged a safety signal related to GLP-1 receptor agonists and sent a list of questions to manufacturers including Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Sanofi and AstraZeneca.
The Inflation Reduction Act could put an end to blockbuster runs like that of Merck’s Keytruda, experts told BioSpace. In the meantime, the drug keeps picking up more indications and positive clinical results.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding and land collaboration agreement to develop medicines exclusively for Chinese use.
After initial Phase II data for the oral IL-23 receptor antagonist licensed from Protagonist Therapeutics spooked investors, Janssen provided a fuller readout and advanced the candidate.
Topline results for its Daiichi Sankyo-partnered antibody-drug conjugate showed statistically significant improvement. However, AstraZeneca shares dropped around 6% in early Monday trading.
The companies Friday reported positive late-stage results for elafibranor as a second-line treatment for primary biliary cholangitis, a rare liver disease.
More than a month after failing its Friedrich’s ataxia trial, PTC Therapeutics’ vatiquinone has again missed its primary endpoint, this time in a mitochondrial disease-associated seizures study.
The company Thursday reported positive topline results for a Phase III trial of its Alzheimer’s-related agitation treatment, while also disclosing improprieties by a principal investigator.
Phase I/II data on AbbVie and Genmab’s recently approved bi-specific antibody in a second cancer indication positions them to talk to regulators about filings to challenge Roche’s Lunsumio.