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Update: Reversal after 20 deaths allows new Japan patients to take Amgen’s rare disease drug Tavenos
Kissei Pharmaceutical is reversing a recommendation related to Amgen-shared Tavneos that it made just a few days ago, now saying the rare disease drug can be given to new patients.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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The FDA has a number of PDUFA dates for the remainder of November for Spectrum, ImmunoGen, Scynexis and Y-mAbs.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will serve 11 years in prison on four counts of fraud, according to her sentencing by a federal judge in a California courtroom on Friday afternoon.
Large pharmaceutical companies are making plans to comply with sustainability and carbon net zero targets. Hear from AstraZeneca and Merck KGaA’s MilliporeSigma about their strategies.
Pfizer and BioNTech reported positive data Friday from their Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent booster. This followed a similar announcement by Moderna Monday.
Therapeutics to halt the progression of chronic kidney disease are in Phase III trials, and others will enter that stage soon. NDAs could follow as early as 2024 with regulatory determinations in 2025.
Iovance Biotherapeutics announced the FDA’s Biologics License Application for lifileucel will likely be completed in Q1 of 2023, a short delay after the agency requested additional data.
The FDA has approved Provention’s BLA for intravenous antibody TZIELD to delay stage 3 type 1 diabetes, making it the first disease-modifying drug indicated to slow disease progression.
With the Thanksgiving season upon us, there are many reasons for biopharma and life sciences companies to say thanks, including for new leaders.
Editas Medicine is pausing its ocular gene therapy program after demonstrating a favorable safety profile and seeking a potential partner to develop EDIT-101, the company announced Thursday.
Regeneron and CytomX Therapeutics inked a deal valued at up to $2 billion to develop next-generation bispecific immunotherapies for cancer, the companies announced Thursday.