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After parting with 50% of its employees earlier this year, Sutro Biopharma will lay another third of its staff in a restructuring effort geared toward reaching key inflection points.
MET-097i’s mid-stage performance “bodes well” for Pfizer’s proposed buyout of Metsera, according to BMO Capital Markets, a deal centered heavily on the investigational GLP-1 drug.
Despite tolerability concerns, nomlabofusp’s overall efficacy represents a “large win” for Larimar, according to analysts at William Blair, who lauded the therapy’s functional benefits.
Already approved in Japan, China and other Asian countries, Crystalys’ dotinurad works to lower serum uric acid levels.
Without naming Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, the CDER director in a now-deleted LinkedIn post claimed that for lupus nephritis, companies have not conducted post-approval studies “to demonstrate a benefit on hard clinical endpoints.”
Companies are moving from using AI for distinct operations to applying the technology for control and optimization of the whole production process.
Reshoring generic pharmaceutical production is essential in today’s era of geopolitical instability and heightened awareness surrounding national health security. And it is possible—if done right.
After Emma Walmsley steps down as GSK CEO in January, Vertex Pharma’s Reshma Kewalramani will be the sole female CEO at a top-20 pharma company. Still, there are many prominent women in pharma that could someday break through again.
Chief Commerical Officer Luke Miels will replace outgoing GSK CEO Emma Walmsley at the U.K. pharma next year.
The AAV pullback comes amid Biogen’s aggressive cost-cutting campaign, which put some 1,000 jobs on the chopping block with the goal of generating $1 billion in savings by 2025.
Applied Therapeutics has yet to confirm whether the study, posted on Clinicaltrials.gov on Thursday, means it has indeed aligned with the FDA on govorestat’s development.
The centerpiece of the acquisition is petosemtamab, Merus’ bispecific antibody targeting EGFR and LGR5, which in May demonstrated best-in-class potential for head-and-neck cancer.
PRESS RELEASES
● CANDID-CNS™ is the new state-of-the-art AI model for BBB penetration: it achieves 87% AUPRC on bRo5 small molecules compared to 56% by Pfizer’s CNS MPO. ● CANDID-CNS™ distinguishes CNS penetrant stereoisomers at 68% compared to 50% by Pfizer’s CNS MPO. ● Published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, CANDID-CNS™ presents a breakthrough in AI Drug Discovery by unlocking the potential of bRo5 and stereochemistry to significantly expand the chemical space of small molecules that can be developed into CNS therapeutics.
Event to Take Place December 11th at 4:30 P.M. ET
Enterololin uses a novel mechanism of action to attack the infection. New treatment has potential use in Crohn’s Disease. License is under existing Research and Collaboration Agreement with McMaster.
Oral MDL-001 Demonstrated Equivalence to Remdesivir and Sofosbuvir in Head-to-Head Animal Model Studies Performed at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Scripps Research, and Superiority to Nirmatrelvir in a Literature Comparison of Equivalent Animal Models. The Potential First-in-Category, Direct-Acting, Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Targets A Novel Conserved Site on The Viral Polymerase Across Six Viral Families.
Success demonstrates the power of EMMI, Terray’s proprietary AI platform integrated with its rapidly expanding 13B+ target-ligand binding database and highly automated lab
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