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Astex Pharmaceuticals, a member of the Otsuka group of companies, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical, indicated their guadecitabine (SGI-110) missed its co-primary endpoints in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
HIV patients have some good news this morning. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Janssen Pharmaceutical’s Symtuza, the first and only complete darunavir-based single-tablet regimen (STR) for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).
The good news keeps coming for Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ SGLT2 diabetes drug Invokana. Late Monday the company said it was halting its Phase III chronic kidney disease trial early due to the fact that the drug had already achieved pre-specified efficacy data.
In a particularly large result, a St. Louis jury awarded almost $4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson.
Months after tapping GlaxoSmithKline dermatology division executive David Rubenstein as its new chief scientific officer, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Dermavant Sciences has returned to the pharma giant to acquire a Phase III-ready psoriasis treatment.
Boston, New York, San Diego and San Francisco are the typical spots that people refer to when they think about biotech hotspots in the United States. But don’t discount New Jersey.
It’s hard to believe 2018 is half over. There have been plenty of interesting and important stories in the biopharma space this year. Here’s a look at our top 10 stories so far, counting down from 10 to the number one story.
So far during the first six months of the year, more than $100 billion has been spent on a myriad of acquisitions across the pharma and biotech industries.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen exercised its option to acquire additional shares of Samsung Bioepis, a joint venture with Samsung BioLogics that was founded in 2012.
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