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The debacle raised three broad questions: What will Biogen do next? Is the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s now dead? And what else is going on in the Alzheimer’s drug development arena?
With Cowen & Company’s 39th Annual Health Care Conference going on in Boston this week, a lot of stories in the biopharma industry are coming out. Here are a few highlights.
The Hillerod subsidiary, Denmark Manufacturing ApS, has about 800 staffers, who are expected to continue working under Fujifilm.
With Boston and the surrounding area being one of the centers of the pharmaceutical world, it should come as no surprise that some of the top-selling medications are based in the Bay State.
For Biogen, the acquisition brings Nightstar’s lead asset, NSR-REP1, a treatment for treatment of choroideremia (CHM), a rare and degenerative, X-linked inherited retinal disorder that leads to blindness, into its pipeline.
Whenever a drug fails an Alzheimer’s clinical trial, analysts, investors and industry watchers immediately turn to look at Biogen. Will the company’s aducanumab be the one? Will it be the drug that will actually break the string of more than 150 drug failures?
Amgen and Allergan announced positive top-line results from a Phase I/Phase III trial of their biosimilar candidate, ABP 798, to Genentech and Biogen’s Rituxan (rituximab).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis’ Ontruzant (trastuzumab-dttb), a biosimilar to Genentech’s Herceptin (trastuzumab).
With the holidays over and the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference next week, companies were clearly revving their engines, ready to race into the new year. Here’s a roundup of some of the top deals that were announced today.
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