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The FDA requested additional data analyses from the pediatric studies that Merck stated it has submitted. The final decision is expected on July 1, 2022.
Kenneth Frazier, executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Merck, joins former colleagues Roger Perlmutter and Roy Baynes at the well-financed company.
Several employees at three biopharma firms are not having a very good week, as Zealand Pharma, Merck and Orchard Therapeutics all announced job cuts.
Merck announced that it will be laying off 143 people from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Acceleron.
When ImmunoGen announced top-line results from the Phase III SORAYA trial in November 2021, the primary endpoint - confirmed objective response rate - was met at 32.4%.
The FDA has a very busy week ending the month of March and moving into April, highlighted by a big AdCom vote on Amylyx’s ALS candidate AMX0035 on March 30.
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