Drug Development
Novo Nordisk posted new data at AHA 2023 showing that its blockbuster weight loss drug could cut the risk of major cardiovascular events—including heart attack—across patient subgroups.
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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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Verve Therapeutics’ base editing program has been forced into a detour after the FDA placed a hold on its investigational new drug application. Beam has also posted its own regulatory update.
Biopharma’s efforts to conquer immunoglobulin A nephropathy were on full display at ASN’s Kidney Week as Ionis, Chinook and Vera all reported positive data.
GSKs Blenrep misses the mark in the Phase III DREAMM-3 trial for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), possibly putting the drug’s continued approval at risk.
The only patient in an FDA-sanctioned clinical trial assessing a CRISPR-based therapy for a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy has died, according to study sponsor Cure Rare Disease.
Eli Lilly’s and Boehringer’s Jardiance met its primary outcome in the Phase III EMPA-KIDNEY study, the largest and broadest SGLT2 inhibitor trial in chronic kidney disease.
In spite of positive Phase IIb results from a thrombosis prevention trial, Ionis is back on the market for a new partner after Bayer returned the rights to the drug to Ionis.
Sanofi and AstraZeneca won European approval for the first preventative RSV treatment for a broad population of newborns and infants.
Arcus Biosciences and its collaboration partner Gilead Sciences announced during Arcus’ third-quarter report that the company had modified its ARC-10 Phase III trial.
Apellis is submitting additional 24-month efficacy data to supplement the NDA for its intravitreal candidate pegcetacoplan for GA secondary to AMD.
Genentech made approximately 35 presentations at ECTRIMS involving blockbuster MS drug Ocrevus drug, with a focus on relapsing-remitting MS and continuing safety studies.