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Roche’s Tecentriq, in combination with chemotherapy, hit its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survival in a Phase III trial for non-small cell lung cancer patients. But, the Swiss pharma giant said the combination has so far failed to achieve statistical significance in overall survival, a co-primary trial endpoint.
July can be a notoriously slow period for FDA activity, and this year is no different. There are only five PDUFA dates scheduled for the month, and the first one was a supplemental approval for Merck’s Keytruda. The PDUFA date was July 3, but it was approved June 13. At this point in the month there are only four more approvals on the docket, here are the remaining approvals scheduled for July.
Shares of Advaxis are skyrocketing this morning after the company announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted the clinical hold on its Investigational New Drug Application for a Phase I/II cancer study.
It’s been a big year so far for activity in the U.S. biopharma market—record IPOs and plenty of big acquisitions. But things may be heating up in Europe as well.
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.
It’s time for some pharmaceutical prognostication. EvaluatePharma released its forward-looking report to 2024 that includes predictions of the best-selling prescription drugs.
The president’s predictions for lower drug prices fell on deaf ears at pharma giant Pfizer as it was reported that the company increased the price of 40 of its most popularly-prescribed medications by nearly 10 percent.
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