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Gilead Sciences and its partner Galapagos NV announced results from its Phase II TORTUGA clinical trial of filgotinib, a selective JAK1 inhibitor, in adults with moderately to severely active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
New Haven, Connecticut-based Arvinas, only a few months since raising $55 million in a Series C financing, filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company hopes to raise $100 million.
Maryland-based REGENXBIO is expanding its gene therapy pipeline to include a new treatment for late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease, one of the most common forms of Batten disease.
The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Science’s CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for the agency to justify.
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Novartis announced that its BYL719 (alpelisib) met the primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in its Phase III SOLAR-1 trial. The drug is an alpha-specific PI3K inhibitor, a category of cancer drugs that has a troubling history of adverse events.
By many standards, and certainly by the way the media covers it and industry promotes it, immuno-oncology therapies using CAR-T are revolutionizing cancer treatments. But what if, as the saying goes, they threw a revolution and nobody came? Or more precisely, what if they threw a revolution and no one was willing to pay for it?
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, with about 55,440 cases diagnosed annually, representing about 3.2 percent of new cancer cases. But each year, 44,330 Americans die from the disease, or about 7.3 percent of cancer deaths.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Merck & Co.’s Keytruda another approval, this one in combination with Alimta (pemetrexed) and platinum chemotherapy for first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
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