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Novo Nordisk has entered into an agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics for $1.1 billion. Forma’s lead development candidate, etavopivat, is being developed for sickle cell disease.
On Wednesday, the FDA authorized new Omicron-specific booster shots for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines despite a lack of human data.
A High Court judge in London granted AstraZeneca an injunction, temporarily blocking a former executive from joining rival pharma GSK.
Fiona H. Marshall has been tapped as Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research president after Jay Bradner’s exit, while Tim Demuth will succeed Malte Peters for MorphoSys.
The problem of intellectual property theft is greater than most biopharma executives realize, but the real issue is that companies are protecting only a fraction of their IP.
Sanofi announced FDA approval of Xenpozyme for adult and pediatric patients with the rare genetic disease acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, often referred to as Niemann-Pick disease.
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is potentially linked to the origins of COVID-19, reported the discovery of a novel DNA virus in animals in the journal Virologica Sinica.
Day One Biopharmaceuticals aims to provide a business solution to a moral problem: the inequity in pediatric oncology drug development.
Clover’s SCB-2019 showed a robust immune response to the Omicron BA.5 sub-variant, while BrainsWay, TikoMed and more provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
The University of Michigan and the University of South Florida have filed a lawsuit against Novartis, alleging the company’s cardiac drug, Entresto, infringes a cocrystal patent held by both universities.
Mesoblast fell short of analyst forecasts this week, and money is pouring into glaucoma, medical devices for heart disease and chronic endocrine conditions.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several Western nations are investing heavily in rapidly developing drugs to treat populations when new pandemics emerge.
