Drug Development
In a late-stage study, most Huntington’s disease patients reported that their symptoms of chorea were “much improved” or “very much improved” following treatment with Neurocrine Biosciences’ VMAT2 inhibitor Ingrezza.
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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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On Nov. 16, the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drug Advisory Committee will meet to discuss the relative merits of Ardelyx’s tenapanor in chronic kidney disease.
Monday, Actinium Pharmaceuticals released promising results Monday from a Phase III trial studying its lead radiotherapy candidate, Iomab-B, for patients with relapsed or refractory AML.
ESSA confirmed that Janssen has stepped away from a prostate cancer collaboration due to “operational recruitment challenges.”
An investigator in the Phase III trial for Biogen and Eisai’s experimental Alzhiemer’s drug, lecanemab, is attributing a patient’s death to the treatment.
Sanofi will drop its IL-2 candidate, citing a lack of efficacy in the early stages of data collection, the company announced in its Q3 report Friday.
Scorpion Therapeutics is on a mission to create a world where many more cancer patients can benefit from precision therapies. Earlier this year, it struck a $75 million alliance with AstraZeneca.
GSK is pulling the plug on an experimental monoclonal antibody therapy for rheumatoid arthritis following a significant miss in one of three Phase III trials.
The FDA has upheld the accelerated approval of Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ Zepzelca (lurbinectedin), even though the drug failed to reach its primary endpoint in the confirmatory Phase III ATLANTIS trial.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals released its report for Q3, in which the company stated it will no longer initiate a Phase III trial for vutrisiran in Stargardt disease.
Two Phase III trials of Genentech (Roche)'s Vabysmo hit the primary endpoint in macular edema caused by branch and central retinal vein occlusion, showing non-inferiority to Regeneron’s Eylea.