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Passage Bio, which has been working toward a registrational trial for a drug candidate whose indications include frontotemporal dementia, is exploring strategic alternatives in addition to cutting staff.
Comprehending the spate of recent rejections in the cell and gene therapy space may require looking no further than early-stage clinical trials of candidates from REGENXBIO, Excision BioTherapeutics and Intellia Therapeutics.
Amid disruption to the outsourced fill/finish market, PCI is investing $100 million to more than double the capacity to fill ready-to-use prefilled syringes and cartridges at its San Diego campus.
The advisory committee meeting—the FDA’s first drug-related adcomm in nine months—could have been a “more conceptual discussion” about the design of AstraZeneca’s Phase 3 trial of camizestrant in HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, former cancer regulator Harpreet Singh told BioSpace.
Summit Therapeutics planned an early interim progression-free survival readout for HARMONi-3 in the hope of enabling earlier regulatory engagement—but the early analysis delivered disappointment for the company and shareholders.
Veppanu, the first PROTAC therapy approved by the FDA, improved progression free survival by 43% versus AstraZeneca’s Faslodex but showed no such significant benefit in the intention-to-treat analysis.
Candid Therapeutics follows closely behind Neurona Therapeutics, which UCB acquired in mid-April in a potential $1.15 billion deal.
In its latest biopharma pipeline report, Deloitte warned that the growing importance of a small pool of potential mega-blockbusters raises the risk of “significant value destruction from a single program failure.”
The FDA is looking at a slew of label expansions this month, including one that could open up home-based treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
The new plant will give Novartis end-to-end capabilities centered on North Carolina, where it plans to have five facilities across three sites.
CEO Stéphane Bancel expressed confidence in Moderna’s first quarter, touting the revenue numbers as a sign of the company’s return to prosperity.
Amgen has launched a late-stage program to test the feasibility of switching patients from weekly GLP-1 injections to its own investigational obesity asset MariTide, which could open up monthly or more infrequent dosing schedules.
PRESS RELEASES
• Appointment strengthens medical, regulatory, and commercial leadership as Company prepares to complete early market access regulatory filings in the U.S., U.K, Europe and Australia in anticipation of OST-HER2 approval decisions expected by year-end 2026 • Upcoming FDA Pre-BLA meeting will focus on the use of recent seroconversion biomarker data as a key surrogate clinical efficacy endpoint to support a BLA for OST-HER2 under the Accelerated Approval Program • Commercialization and reimbursement preparations well underway for the U.S., U.K., and Europe in parallel with ongoing partnership discussions
• Quarterly revenue up 8% year over year; Annual revenue guidance range remains at $42-$48 million • CDMO fragrance and Saffron projects reach successful milestones; First quarter CDMO revenue grew 135% YoY • VINIA brand customer base grows to 90,000 active users as of the end of April • Two-lens framework enacted in Q1 to optimize performance across CDMO and D2C businesses
Business development appointment is aligned with securing long-term customers for development and manufacturing partnerships
Another major milestone in its continuous global IP strategy, advancing protection of VIVI Cap Smart across international markets Highlights Granted Patent covers the design of VIVI Cap Smart™ across major international, growing market Strengthens the Company’s intellectual property position in one of the world’s largest healthcare and consumer markets Supports commercialization strategy and strategic discussions with appliance manufacturers Design term extends through May 16, 2039 Company enters into financing arrangement to support inventory build for growing portfolio