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Eli Lilly joins hands with Engage Bio, acquiring the DNA delivery platform developer in hopes of bolstering its genetic medicines portfolio.
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Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
Biotech is increasingly financed, governed and regulated as though it were a mature pharmaceutical industry rather than a discovery system built around scientific uncertainty. Structural changes are needed to sustain the sector’s strategic innovation.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Republican lawmakers have called on the Food and Drug Administration to explain its foreign inspection programs for drug manufacturers in China and India as shortages continue in the U.S.
With Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi now fully approved, researchers are exploring combinations—including with therapies targeting tau and microglial function—that could increase its effectiveness.
BioSpace rounded up companies with products for Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s in the final stages of clinical testing.
Johnson & Johnson and Astellas are the latest companies to file suits against the Biden administration, challenging the constitutionality of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program.
Late-stage study suggests Merck’s Keytruda is a promising treatment candidate in newly diagnosed patients with locally advanced cervical cancer, inducing better progression-free survival.
J&J, Merck and Pfizer are the subjects of a House Judiciary Committee investigation for their alleged participation in a government-sanctioned censorship campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Industry advocates argue price negotiation via the IRA may jeopardize the prices relied upon by biosimilar manufacturers to recoup their investments.
The company also terminated a Phase III trial of its TGFB inhibitor as a treatment for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, though that drug will continue to be tested as a treatment for colorectal cancer.
Tuesday’s partnership will dig into Flagship’s deep ecosystem of companies and technologies to discover medicines in line with Pfizer’s core strategic areas.
Less than two years after launch, the startup posts positive Phase II results and heads into Phase III trials for major depressive disorder with a new CEO.