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Across parts of Europe, Asia and the rest of the globe, pharma and biotech companies have made strides and deals to advance their pipelines and technologies this week.
London-based Clinigen Group pc will now have full rights to Proleukin (aldesleukin, human recombinant interleukin-2). This morning, the U.K.-based pharmaceutical and services company struck a deal with Novartis to acquire the U.S. rights to the metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment.
As Britain’s plans to leave the European Union—Brexit—stagger toward the March 29 deadline, the UK biopharma industry is taking stock of the likely impact.
After Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, a former executive with Eli Lilly, unveiled a pricing reform that would allow pharma companies to end the rebate system and pass those savings directly to consumers, leaders from across the pharma industry are offering early support for the proposal.
IDEA Pharma recently published its “Pharmaceutical Innovation Index 2018.” This report ranks biopharma companies on their ability to bring products from Phase I/II to market and then successfully commercialize them. They used a variety of sources, including company websites, third-party institutions such as clinicaltrials.gov, and syndicated and analyst reports to make their list.
Four months after getting the green light in the U.K. for treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Novartis’ CAR-T treatment Kymriah, known as Tisagenlecleucel in the U.K., has gained approval for treatment of adults with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Novartis Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan said 2018 was a year of reimagining for Switzerland-based Novartis. It was a year when the company focused its capital and resourced on developing breakthrough medicines.
As the United Kingdom nears closer and closer to exiting the European Union without a deal, drug manufacturers like Novartis are preparing contingencies for how they will continue to provide medications, many of them life-saving, for patients in the U.K.
Novartis and Oxford will use artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to identify early predictors of inflammatory diseases.
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