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For the second time in as many years, the FDA has hit Supernus Pharmaceuticals with a Complete Response Letter, citing undisclosed quality and master filing issues for the drug-device combination.
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While the TrumpRx deals only cover Lilly and Novo for now, the agreements are good for any cardiometabolic biotechs waiting in the wings, according to a new 2026 preview report from PitchBook.
Venture capital flow to women-founded companies has stabilized in the post-pandemic environment. BioSpace looks back at five companies that have nabbed the most over the past two decades.
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After covering the Alzheimer’s space through every high and low, BioSpace’s Annalee Armstrong welcomes back Roche for the 2026 Alzheimer’s Renaissance.
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Neurologist David Weisman, with financial ties to the companies, was removed from the FDA’s upcoming advisory committee meeting slated to consider Leqembi’s traditional approval.
A Kenilworth, NJ, R&D campus that formerly served as Merck’s global headquarters is now set to reopen and become the Northeast Science and Technology (NEST) Center.
The combination therapy was added to standard chemotherapy and lowered the risk of progression or death by 37% in newly diagnosed patients with advanced ovarian cancer without BRCA mutations.
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients treated with the company’s efruxifermin saw significant improvements in liver fat and biomarkers of liver damage, fibrosis and cardiometabolic health.
Data from a new head-to-head study showed BMS’ Opdivo induced better progression-free survival among Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients than Seagen’s Adcetris.
After five years of follow-up, AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso reduces the risk of death by 51% as compared with placebo in EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients, according to Phase III ADAURA trial results.
Servier Pharmaceuticals’ Vorasidenib, acquired from Agios in a $1.8 billion deal, slowed the growth of a certain type of low-grade glioma by 61% in a Phase III trial.
Combined with chemotherapy, Keytruda in KEYSTONE-671 significantly improved EFS and reduced the risk of disease recurrence, progression or death by 42%, beating Imfinzi’s EFS in the AEGEAN trial.
Follow news from the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2023 annual meeting—BioSpace will be tracking key updates here throughout the conference.
The Swiss pharma’s CDK4/6 inhibitor reduced risk for recurrence by 25% when added to the standard-of-care endocrine therapy, inviting comparisons to Lilly’s Verzenio.