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THE LATEST
It was a busy week for both COVID-19-related clinical trial news and the rest of the industry. Here’s a look.
GlaxoSmithKline has opened a new $13 million research hub in London focused on artificial intelligence.
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This test will give healthcare providers a single result to confirm an HIV diagnosis with patients and differentiate between HIV-1 and HIV-2.
Janssen Pharmaceutical of Johnson & Johnson made a strategic call to halt development of pimodivir, an antiviral treatment for influenza A.
Shares of AbbVie fell nearly 4% Tuesday following the issuance of a subpoena from the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee regarding an ongoing investigation into drug pricing.
Gilead Sciences and Jounce Therapeutics entered a discovery and development deal to exclusively license Jounce’s JTX-1811 immuno-oncology program.
Boston Pharmaceuticals licensed the drug candidate BOS-580, an injectable, genetically engineered variant of human FGF21.
The U.S. expansion will recruit up to 30,000 adults over the age of 18 years from a broad range of racial, ethnic and geographic groups who are healthy or have stable underlying medical conditions.
AbbVie and Harvard University entered into a $30 million collaborative research alliance to develop therapies against emergent viral infections, with a focus on those caused by coronaviruses and by viruses that lead to hemorrhagic fever.
BMS announced that the Phase III IDHENTIFY trial of Idhifa (enasidenib) plus best supportive care (BSC) compared to conventional care, did not meet the primary endpoint of overall survival in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (r/r AML) with an isocitrate dehydrogenase-2 (IDH2) mutation.