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Although that is good news, cancer is the second-most common cause of death in the U.S., with more than 1.7 million new cancer cases each year and more than 600,000 cancer deaths. The report notes that one of the biggest factors in decreased cancer rates are lower tobacco smoking rates.
In 2018, the FDA approved 59 novel drugs, meaning approved new molecular entities. BioSpace analyzed new drug approvals from 2014 to 2018 to determine which companies were responsible for the most drug approvals in that period. Here’s a look.
Biotech and pharma companies came roaring out of the gate on the first day of the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference with big deals, expansions and promises of growth and pipeline sustainability.
Gilead Sciences is acquiring the global rights to develop and commercialize novel small molecules against two targets from Yuhan Corporation, based in South Korea. They drugs will be developed to treat advanced fibrosis related to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, being held from January 7 through 10 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, is one of the premier, possible the premier, conferences for the biopharmaceutical industry.
Gilead Sciences, in two days, inked two collaboration deals with two different companies that could pay out an aggregate of more than $3.125 billion. One of those deals is in the area of immuno-oncology, the other in fibrosis.
With the holiday upon us, many companies in the pharma and biotech industry have made some important announcements – some big, some small. BioSpace has gathered a number of announcements that might have gone unnoticed and put them together below.
EvaluatePharma and Vantage recently released their Vantage 2019 Preview which looks at the current year’s biopharma market and makes projections about the upcoming year.
With the year closing out, biotech and pharma companies are making adjustments to their leadership ranks and boards of directors.
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