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Three years after acquiring a majority stake Foundation Medicine, Pharma giant Roche has agreed to buy up all outstanding shares for about $2.4 billion and bring the company’s sequencing diagnostics platform under the Roche umbrella.
PTC Therapeutics presented updated interim clinical data from Part 1 of its FIREFISH clinical trial of risdiplam (RG7916) in babies with Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
AbbVie and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) School of Pharmacy have partnered to form the first AbbVie-KGI Biopharmaceutical Industry Fellowship.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently reprimanded AbbVie for its processes for investigating reports of deaths associated with three of its drugs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved AbbVie and Roche’s combination of Venclexta in combination with Rituxan (rituximab) to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), with or without 17p deletion in patients who have received at least one previous therapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Genentech’s Tecentriq triple combination with Avastain (bevacizumab), paclitaxel and carboplatin (chemotherapy) Priority Review for first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
According to Biosimilarpipeline, more than 660 companies worldwide have about 700 biosimilars in development.
Just about every week has plenty of exciting news in the biopharmaceutical industry, and this week was no different. Here’s a brief look back at some of our top stories.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a complete response letter (CRL) to Sandoz, a division of Novartis, for its Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) for its biosimilar to Roche/Genentech’s Rituxan.
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