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Biogen’s new data, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, supports a tau-focused approach to the intractable neurodegenerative disease; psychedelics are back in the news with more positive data from Compass Pathways and final guidance from the FDA; and the ATTR-CM space got a major shakeup with the late-stage failure of AstraZeneca and Ionis’ antisense therapeutic.
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Biopharma is entering its second-quarter earnings season riding high on a wave of massive deals and venture capital flow, plus a clearing of regulatory and policy overhangs. What can industry watchers expect to hear on the upcoming investor calls?
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.
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.
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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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BioNTech will pay Shanghai-based Duality Biologics $170 million upfront for rights to two of its topoisomerase-1 inhibitor-based antibody drug conjugates.
Almost two years after its launch, eye-focused gene therapy start-up Vedere Bio II is closing its doors, company leaders announced through a LinkedIn post over the weekend.
Cytokinetics is discontinuing the Phase III COURAGE-ALS trial in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis after its candidate reldesemtiv failed a planned interim analysis, the company announced Friday.
HUTCHMED has completed the rolling submission of its New Drug Application to the FDA for fruquintinib, its candidate for refractor metastatic colorectal cancer.
With several recent milestones, Intellia Therapeutics is setting a solid foundation for gene editing in rare diseases with an eye toward broader patient populations.
Ravi B. Parikh discussed how new FDA guidance on accelerated approval for cancer drugs will affect the space.
Nearly eight months after leaving his post as head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson, Mathai Mammen has found a new job as CEO of cancer focused FogPharma.
GSK will help commercialize Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp), currently approved to treat vaginal yeast infections and vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC).
BIIB080 successfully reduced tau pathology in patients with early-stage disease across all six brain regions analyzed.
Proximity bias, a term that describes how managers tend to favor those they see in person, may force remote and hybrid workers to work harder to keep up with their in-person counterparts.