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Following a nine-month review, the Biden administration will issue a framework for the National Institutes of Health to implement so-called “march-in rights” under the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.
The deal, announced late Wednesday, will provide AbbVie with access to Cerevel Therapeutics’ pipeline of clinical-stage and preclinical candidates for psychiatric and neurological diseases.
Transfer RNA’s unique biology could enable a mutation-specific, gene-agnostic—and more cost effective—approach to developing treatments for thousands of rare and ultra-rare diseases.
Although looking for candidates on platforms like LinkedIn continues to be the norm, some headhunters are also combing Google Scholar and PubMed for authors with relevant skills.
Carina Clingman, founder of The Collaboratory Career Hub, answers questions about the ins and outs of finding, landing and succeeding in openings in biotech.
The regulator has accepted Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo and the chemotherapy cisplatin for priority review in patients with unresectable metastatic urothelial carcinoma, as well as Merck and Seagen’s first-line combo.
The study found only 19% of nearly 2,000 patients were still taking their prescribed anti-obesity medication at 12 months, compared to 40% that continued with Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy.
This week we discuss ups and downs in the weight loss and ADC markets - including Altimmune, Pfizer setbacks, AbbVie’s ImmunoGen buy and more.
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The Swiss pharma’s Fabhalta, a Factor B inhibitor, is the first FDA-approved oral monotherapy for adults with the rare blood disorder paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
With the biopharma industry’s looming wave of gene therapy submissions and potential approvals, the senior senator is laying the groundwork for a legislative initiative to improve access to these expensive treatments.
In two late-stage trials, the experimental oral drug evobrutinib was unable to significantly reduce annualized relapse rates in MS patients compared with Sanofi’s Aubagio tablets.
Fueled partly by increasing lifespans and cancer incidence, the area’s worth is projected to soar to 13.67 billion by 2032, Precedence Research reports.
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