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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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The ability to utilize one protein degrader against a whole host of diseases drives Kymera’s strategy when choosing protein targets.
Data from the Phase II CYPRESS study presented at the virtual IDWeek (Infectious Disease Week) 2021 showed that the vaccine candidate provided a robust response against the infection.
Johnson & Johnson is expected to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize a booster for its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Four months after collaborating on an experimental atopic dermatitis treatment, Amgen and Kyowa Kirin are seeing the fruits of that deal with positive Phase II data.
Clinical trials have demonstrated that intermittent apomorphine injections provide rapid and effective relief from sudden, unexpected “off” periods brought on by primary Parkinson’s medicine, levodopa.
Once the deal is done, the company will be renamed MoonLake Immunotherapeutics and trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol MLTX.
Wanting to find out what is fueling the trend, BioSpace solicited the perspectives of a couple of executives who chose the SPAC route.
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The U.S. FDA is kicking off the month of October with a number of PDUFA dates and an advisory committee meeting. Read on for more details.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals received a positive decision from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals over a suit against the U.S. FDA’s approval of a competitor’s amifampridine product.
This week, three global biopharmaceutical companies received over half a billion dollars to support research and development initiatives in the treatment of rare and deadly diseases.