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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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Life sciences veteran Thomas Brock is helming a new therapeutic pipeline at Notable Labs, a company that has primarily been known for its oncology-testing services.
Scientists are conducting research into the possibility of creating a vaccine that activates T cells that targets not just SARS-CoV-2 but also its variations, even the ones that cause common colds.
Organon is paying $75 million upfront, taking on about $9 million of Forendo debt, and up to $270 million in various development and regulatory milestones.
As the capabilities have been proven, AI is establishing a firm foothold in the key areas of R&D, drug development, clinical trials, and, to some extent, patient-facing products.
Eisai and Biogen announced positive updates on the Phase IIB 201 and open-label extension studies they are conducting on the use of lecanemab to treat early Alzheimer’s Disease.
Between January 4, 2020 and October 30, 2021, COVID-19 accounted for 576 deaths among children 17 and younger, compared to 189 from influenza, according to the CDC.
AC Immune’s Phase II Lauriet study of investigational anti-Tau monoclonal antibody, semorinemab, in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD), only met one endpoint.
The company is investigating the death of a 75-year-old woman who died of ARIA while receiving Aduhelm.
Eric Ostertag, CEO of Poseida Therapeutics, believes the future of CAR-T programs is with allogeneic approaches and not autologous.