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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The company’s sales guidance for 2023 has been raised to $98.8 billion to $99.8 billion, driven by cancer drugs and medical devices. J&J’s stock rose about 5% in early trading Thursday.
The program—a joint initiative between CDER and CBER—aims to accelerate the development of therapies for rare diseases.
The company is handing back a multivalent Shigella vaccine candidate to LimmaTech Biologics, which spun out in 2015 after GSK’s acquisition of GlycoVaxyn for $190 million.
Illumina is laying off 79 workers in San Diego, and according to an internal email, more layoffs will be announced soon.
At almost 80,000 square feet, the addition will allow the Japan-based to create jobs for in-office and hybrid workers in the region.
The proposed regulatory framework provides a tougher stance on mergers, impacting industries such as biopharma where the FTC’s recent lawsuit seeks to block Amgen’s Horizon Therapeutics buy.
The Federal Trade Commission and the company had been in settlement discussions, but those talks have ended as the agency’s antitrust lawsuit seeks to block the Horizon Therapeutics sale.
Republican lawmakers have called on the Food and Drug Administration to explain its foreign inspection programs for drug manufacturers in China and India as shortages continue in the U.S.
With Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi now fully approved, researchers are exploring combinations—including with therapies targeting tau and microglial function—that could increase its effectiveness.
BioSpace rounded up companies with products for Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s in the final stages of clinical testing.