Drug Development
This week on The Weekly we talk struggles with GLP-1 drug shortages and what that might mean for Novo and Lilly competitors; Regeneron and Sanofi positive results for Dupixent in COPD. Plus, Merck buys Caraway, Beigene’s deal with Ensem, ups and downs for Flagship.
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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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With $96 million in Series A financing, Cajal Neuroscience launched Tuesday to develop drug candidates to target neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
As the FDA cracks down on accelerated approvals, Genentech, a Roche company, voluntarily withdrew its monoclonal antibody, Tecentriq, for metastatic bladder cancer.
A second patient death has been linked to the Phase III clinical trial of Eisai and Biogen’s investigational Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, according to the journal Science.
Shares of CinCor Pharma fell more than 50% in premarket trading Monday after its investigational blood pressure drug failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase II trial.
A Phase III trial of Axsome Therapeutics’ AXS-05 hit both the primary and secondary endpoints in patients with Alzheimer’s disease agitation, the New York-based company announced Monday.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical announced the FDA no longer plans to hold an advisory committee meeting to review its BLA for Roctavian an AAV gene therapy for adults with severe hemophilia A.
Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture are moving into Phase III for a combination treatment targeting the rise of artemisinin-resistant Malaria infection.
Late Monday, Arvinas Inc. was forced to divulge the contents of its upcoming breast cancer data presentation, slated for the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (“SABCS”).
The FDA granted priority review to Takeda’s Biologics License Application for TAK-003, a dengue vaccine candidate. The vaccine to date is only approved for use in Indonesia.
Merck is eyeing another major label expansion for its flagship anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda following an interim analysis of KEYNOTE-859 trial.