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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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.
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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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Partnership seeks to identify novel therapeutic molecules to address diseases with high unmet patient needs. It’s the second target discovery company to link with BI in the last month.
The German biotech is trying to deepen its pipeline in cancer and other infectious diseases as COVID-19 markets contract and the international public health emergency comes to an end.
Weeks after announcing a CEO shake-up and slightly decreased Q1 revenues, BMS plans to cut 48 staff members from its Princeton, NJ, facility.
After a brief slump, interest in ADCs is at an all-time high, highlighted by a handful of recent multi-million- and billion-dollar acquisitions.
The FDA’s new guidance on decentralized clinical trials clarifies how investigators and trial sponsors can use digital health technologies and involve primary healthcare practitioners.
As competition eats away at profits for the wet age-related macular degeneration drug, Regeneron is diversifying its portfolio and pumping more money into research and development.
The companies said in first-quarter earnings calls that they want to restructure R&D, cut costs and shift away from high-risk drug development to focus areas.
The FDA’s agenda includes an advisory committee meeting for Sarepta’s delandistrogene moxeparvovec, which, if approved, would become the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
During a first-quarter earnings call, Novo revealed its hemophilia candidate had been blocked by the FDA, and that the company is reducing the U.S. supply of lower doses of weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Despite multiple therapeutics approved to treat localized symptoms, there are currently no systemic therapies on the market for Sjogren’s syndrome.