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Partners Summit Therapeutics and Akeso are expected to steal the show at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual conference with data from their potential Keytruda rival, alongside Revolution Medicine’s groundbreaking pancreatic cancer candidate and other assets that could reshape patient care.
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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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Exogene nets $2 million to propel the development of its AI platform for T-cell receptor discovery and Healome spins out to deploy a ‘pro-healing’ platform with a focus on ocular surface diseases.
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AviadoBio is celebrating orphan drug designations from both the U.S. FDA and the European Commission for AVB-101, a gene therapy intended to treat frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
BeiGene’s candidate drug tislelizumab for cancer succeeded in meeting the primary endpoint of overall survival in a global Phase III trial. Learn more about it here.
Weeks after Gilead Sciences raised concern over counterfeit HIV drugs, Johnson & Johnson has taken similar action against the distribution of counterfeit prescription drugs.
Cytovia Holdings, a biopharma company focused on natural killer (NK) cells, merged with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp. to go public.
The U.S. Congress is calling for the coronavirus management plan to deliberate on the timeline for the approval and release of vaccines for children under 5 years old.
David Sabatini, who was ousted last year by the Whitehead Institute over allegations of sexual harassment, may have found a new home at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
New research suggests that treatment with anti-amyloid-beta protofibril antibody lecanemab is estimated to slow the rate of disease progression in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.
GlaxoSmithKline exceeded expectations for its first-quarter sales and earnings forecasts. This was largely driven by its sales of Xevudy, an antibody treatment against COVID-19 it developed with Vir Biotechnology, and its Shingrix vaccine against shingles.
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