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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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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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AstraZeneca announced its plans to create a new, separate division for vaccines and antibody therapies, specifically its COVID-19 vaccine developed with the University of Oxford and other COVID-19 antibody treatments.
Shares of Xencor, Inc. are down nearly 6% after the company announced Novartis terminated its rights to develop vibecotamab, a CD123 x CD3 blood cancer bispecific.
Although Martin Shkreli continues to serve a prison sentence for fraud, the so-called “Pharma Bro” remains in legal hot water over antitrust charges.
New studies come out regularly supporting the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s a look as well as other COVID-19 news.
The study was momentous in that it was the first head-to-head comparison of two modalities. The Aimovig showed significantly good results and aced primary endpoints.
Arbor announced an oversubscribed Series B raise totaling $215 million, a significant increase from their initial $15.6 milllion Series A round to test for liver and CNS diseases.
Biohaven and Pfizer have partnered to market the Nurtec migraine medicine outside the U. S. once approved by global regulatory organizations. Here’s more about it.
Sungho Han, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Genuv Inc. in Seoul, South Korea, has built her career and her company by thinking outside the box.
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SELB), today announced top-line results from a joint Selecta and AskBio Phase I randomized, placebo controlled, double blind, dose-escalation study to evaluate the potential of its ImmTORTM platform in mitigating the formation of neutralizing antibodies against an adeno-associated viral serotype 8 (AAV8) serotype capsid used in gene therapies.
Many mergers took place in 2021. Here’s a look at some of the hottest life sciences SPAC merger announcements so far in 2021. Many mergers took place in 2021,