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The Swiss pharma’s CDK4/6 inhibitor reduced risk for recurrence by 25% when added to the standard-of-care endocrine therapy, inviting comparisons to Lilly’s Verzenio.
The company’s Humira biosimilar Yusimry will launch in July with a $995 list price. Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy will sell it at a list price of $569.27 plus fees.
The company’s aztreonam-avibactam matched the cure rate of a meropenem-based regimen in patients with drug-resistant infections.
The recent approval of Biogen’s Qalsody in SOD1–ALS highlighted the potential of ASOs in CNS diseases, while recent failures make it clear there is still work to be done.
ADCs from BioNTech, Daiichi Sankyo and Merck are the subject of high-profile abstracts featured at the oncology meeting, along with Merck’s late-breaking Phase III non-small cell lung cancer data.
Drugs that act on the CFTR protein only work in patients who produce the protein in the first place. That leaves 6% of patients hanging.
The FDA has three high-profile events this week, including one target action date and two advisory committee meetings—one to discuss potential traditional approval for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi.
Roger Perlmutter’s company announced the addition Thursday of myriad early- to mid-stage assets in the cancer and neurodegenerative disease spaces.
The company added an indication to Lynparza’s label for the treatment of adults with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, while cutting an antibody for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Bioversity plans address two key pain points in the industry: the current system cannot produce enough talent to keep up with demand, and the workforce as a whole lacks diversity.
The regulator says drug compounders are selling products that falsely claim to contain the same active ingredient, semaglutide, as the blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs.
Despite oft-reported news of layoffs, the life sciences industry continues to have golden spots of expansions in terms of jobs, year-on-year revenue and in building new facilities and programs.
PRESS RELEASES
Expanded sweetener molecule development program aims to broaden access to plant-based sweetening solutions tailored to diverse customer food and beverage categories.
• $5.5 million financing that closed on April 2, 2026 together with $5.7 million in capital raised in Q1-2026, expected to provide Company with cash runway into 2027 • $4.5 million of accrued VAT refunds and R&D refundable tax credits from UK subsidiary begin maturing, including $1.9 million VAT cash refund expected in June 2026 • Successful EMA and Australia TGA (ATGA) meetings aligned around use of existing biomarker and pending release of 3-year overall survival data to support Conditional Marketing Authorisations (CMAs) for OST-HER2 in prevention or delay of recurrence in fully-resected, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma (“Metastatic Osteosarcoma”) • 2.5-year overall survival data expected to be released during ASCO 2026 • EMA and ATGA have aligned on key design aspects of confirmatory Phase 3 Metastatic Osteosarcoma protocol required to have commenced prior to grant of CMAs or FDA BLA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint • Upcoming U.S. FDA Type C meeting and U.K. MHRA SAM meeting to align with EMA & ATGA prior to Australia Clinical Trial Notification submission for Phase 3, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint. U.S. FDA (“FDA”) Pre-BLA meeting to confirm alignment on surrogate and primary clinical efficacy endpoints with EMA/ATGA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint, and seek decisions on rolling review acceptance and RMAT designation following the EMA and U.K. MHRA granting ATMP designation (EMA/MHRA RMAT equivalent) for OST-HER2 in Metastatic Osteosarcoma • OS Animal Health S-1 filing for proposed ‘Go-Public’ transaction and receipt of SEC comments