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Eli Lilly just signed a license deal with Tokyo’s Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. for OWL833, Chugai’s oral non-peptidic GLP-1 receptor agonist. It is Phase 1-ready being evaluated for type 2 diabetes.
AstraZeneca and its MedImmune division released data on overall survival (OS) in its Phase III PACIFIC clinical trial of Imfinzi (durvalumab).
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. It is estimated that this year there will be more than 22,000 women in the U.S. diagnosed with the disease and about 14,000 disease-related deaths.
According to BioPharm Catalyst there were, or soon will be, 58 biopharma IPOs in 2018. And the trend doesn’t appear to be slowing. Here’s a look at five upcoming biotech IPOs.
AstraZeneca announced positive results from its Phase III DECLARE-TIMI 58 cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial of Farxiga (dapagliflozin).
Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma announced that its roxadustat met its primary endpoints in the Phase III ALPS clinical trial in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with anemia not on dialysis. The focus of the drug is on anemia.
Clovis Oncology will pay more than $20 million in penalties to settle charges that Chief Executive Officer Patrick Mahaffy and its former Chief Financial Officer Erle Mast misleading investors about the company’s lung cancer treatment leading up to a public offering of stock.
AstraZeneca released positive results from the BORA Phase III extension clinical trial of Fasenra (benralizumab) as an add-on maintenance therapy in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma that had already completed either the SIROCCO or CALIMA Phase III trials.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of Americans surveyed thought it was appropriate to use genetically engineered animals to grow organs for human transplants.
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