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Follow along as BioSpace tracks job cuts and restructuring initiatives.
At the American Heart Association conference, investigators were supportive of further studying Novo’s IL-6 inhibitor ziltivekimab in patients with less severe cardiovascular and kidney disease.
After emraclidine’s schizophrenia fail and Cobenfy’s laggard launch, it’s too early to know who made the better buy: AbbVie, in its $8.7 billion Cerevel takeover in late 2023, or Bristol Myers Squibb, which spent $14 billion for Karuna just two weeks later.
FDA
Inclusion of the patient perspective is currently an “optional” part of the rare disease drug development process, CBER Director Karim Mikhail told BioSpace. Mikhail, along with his CDER counterpart Michael Davis and other agency rare disease leaders, is trying to change that.
SK pharmteco’s Tatiana Nanda, chief technical officer of SK pharmteco Viral Vector North America discusses what gene therapy sponsors must account for sooner rather than later when preparing for GMP manufacturing.
UPCOMING EVENTS
While Moderna preps an entry to the oncology market next year with a personalized cancer vaccine, COVID sales are holding steady with several other vaccine launches underway around the world.
The BioSpace 40 Under 40 honoree helped steer Forge’s sale to Ajinomoto. Now, Samantha Piteri-Molina sees opportunities in AI-driven analytics and Ohio’s gene therapy ecosystem—with a responsibility to patients worldwide.
After the FDA delayed a decision for Agios Pharmaceuticals’ sickle cell disease candidate, the biopharma is letting go of more than 35% of its R&D employees.
Sarepta Therapeutics’ newly minted CEO Michael Severino laid out his path to returning the muscular dystrophy therapy maker to the forefront of the rapidly expanding market.
FDA
Also lined up are target action dates for Sanofi’s Gaucher disease therapy, GSK’s lung cancer medicine and BridgeBio’s muscular dystrophy drug.
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