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On a dollar-for-dollar basis, vaccines have probably had a greater positive effect on global health than any other medical advancement, except possibly antibiotics. Yet as a whole, it’s an area that pharma companies tend to not spend a lot of resources on. But there are still many companies that work in this area. Here’s a look at five promising vaccines.
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies from Johnson & Johnson, confirmed topline data from its Phase III Antiretroviral Therapy as Long-Acting Suppression (ATLAS) trial of its two-drug combination for HIV.
Acorda Therapeutics Chief Technology Officer Rick Batycky is leaving the company to take over the helm of an unnamed biotechnology company.
It’s not easy to predict trends in drugs, especially with breakthroughs in immunology and genetic engineering often causing dramatic changes in how biopharma companies approach new drugs.
Massachusetts in general and Boston, specifically Cambridge, is one of the two largest centers in the U.S. for biotech startups and life science companies (the other being the San Francisco Bay Area). Here’s a look at 13 Massachusetts life science companies that are showing both gains and losses—mostly gains—at the six-month mark.
Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Regeneron received some unwelcome news. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected the company’s attempt to secure a supplemental approval for its blockbuster drug Eylea as a once-per 12-week treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
This morning Genentech announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Xolair to treat exposure to those deadly food allergies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Onpattro (patisiran) for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) amyloidosis in adults. It is the first and only RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic to ever be approved.
Four months after acquiring GlaxoSmithKline’s rare disease gene therapy portfolio, U.K.-based Orchard Therapeutics secured $150 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round. The funds will be used to advance three late-stage programs that it gained from the deal with GSK.
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