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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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The FDA informed Moderna that it would need more time to evaluate the company’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) submission for its COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 to 17 years of age.
GlaxoSmithKline denied reports that they were interested in acquiring Canada’s Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, although some reports claim they are preparing to bid.
One year after snagging $310 million in a financing round, LianBio raised $325M in its initial public offering. Its stock begins selling today on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “LIAN.”
Inovio shares are down about 2% in premarket trading after cancellation reports of a DNA cancer vaccine collab with AstraZeneca.
Researchers found that those who took either the once-a-month or once-every-two-month doses experienced longer periods before relapsing.
Under the agreement, Merck can use Synthekine’s surrogate cytokine agonist platform to discover, develop, and sell new cytokine-based treatments for up to two cytokine targets.
The decision came after Avoro Capital Advisors, which owns a 7% stake in Acceleron, posted its objections to the deal.
BlueSphere Bio aims to overcome challenges in the CAR T space with a precision approach to T cell therapy.
Scemblix is the first-in-class FDA-approved treatment for adult patients diagnosed with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia.