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U.K.-based Clarivate Plc has identified seven late-stage assets or recently-approved drugs that could hit the billion-dollar per year mark within five years.
On Friday morning, AstraZeneca’s rare disease group Alexion and Switzerland-based Neurimmune entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement for NI006.
A bispecific antibody discovered by Twist Bioscience and licensed to Revelar Biotherapeutics neutralizes both the Omicron and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 in studies with the live virus.
Biogen exercised an option to pick up an exclusive global license for a drug to treat spinal muscular atrophy from Ionis. The compound, BIIB115, is an antisense oligonucleotide.
Data from pre-clinical studies show that OV350 may be developed to treat multiple types of epilepsy and other CNS conditions, including neurodevelopmental diseases.
From the continuing fight against COVID-19 to new companies emerging in exciting therapeutic areas to the people who mattered most, here’s a look at just some of the biggest successes, most dramatic flops – and a few that fall somewhere in between.
The two companies are already looking at the coming year and seeing the potential for their experimental treatment ofATTR, Eplontersen, formerly known as IONIS-TTR-L.
Studies found that AstraZeneca’s EVUSHELD was still effective against the Omicron variant. EVUSHELD is a long-acting antibody combination made up of tixagevimab and cilgavimab.
As the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 picks up speed, vaccine makers are rushing to test their shots against the new mutation, with mixed results.
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