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Yesterday, the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee had a split vote, 8 to 8, on whether the overall benefits of Zynquista (sotagliflozin) outweiged the risk in order to support approval. This sends things back to the agency to make a final decision, which has a target action date of March 22, 2019.
It didn’t take long for the new leadership structure in the U.S. House of Representatives to take on the pharmaceutical industry. On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform launched an investigation into prescription drug pricing practices.
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.
Tarrytown, NY-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Paris-based Sanofi restructured a 2015 agreement to develop immuno-oncology (I/O) treatments. That deal was scheduled to wrap in 2020, but the revision adds two clinical-stage bispecific antibodies to the collaboration.
Days ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Germany-based BioNTech extended its three-year-old collaboration with Sanofi as the companies look to co-develop the first cancer immunotherapy candidate for solid tumors.
Acer Therapeutics, headquartered in Newton, Mass., in-licensed osanetant, a clinical-stage, selective, non-peptide tachykinin NK3 receptor antagonist from Paris-based Sanofi.
The vaccine, Vaxelis, was approved to prevent diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, and invasive disease due to Haemophilus influenza type b.
The battle of the bulge is ongoing and it appears that Americans are losing, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report shows that Americans are losing height and gaining girth.
Paris-based Sanofi announced it was transferring its listing of American Depositary Shares (ADS) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to The Nasdaq Global Select Market starting end-of-day December 31, 2018. They will start trading on January 2, 2019.
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