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Amgen remains confident in its obesity asset MariTide, for which it has launched a broad Phase III program.
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Recent headlines proclaim a ‘potential’ or ‘functional’ cure for multiple myeloma, but the fight against the disease must continue.
After a chaotic year that has seen the attrition of over half the FDA’s senior leadership, many of these individuals have landed new roles—at Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Iovance and more. The FDA’s loss, it seems, is largely the pharmaceutical industry’s gain.
Despite announcing a broad pivot to siRNA earlier this year, Sarepta is following through with an investigational gene therapy: its limb-girdle muscular dystrophy candidate. But the treatment’s path forward, analysts say, is highly uncertain.
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In a recent BioSpace LinkedIn poll, nearly half of respondents predicted the job market won’t turn around until 2027 or later. It’s easy to see why people are skeptical, especially when you consider recent hiring activity and layoffs.
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Mounjaro and Zepbound contributed more than $10 billion to the $11.98 billion in sales Lilly recorded for key products in the third quarter, despite price decreases for the GLP-1 medicines.
The investment, which will expand Eli Lilly’s existing campus in Puerto Rico, is slated to create 100 new jobs, on top of around 1,000 construction-related roles.
With a 100% response rate in a Phase II study, KYV-101 sets a new efficacy bar in generalized myasthenia gravis, according to analysts at William Blair.
The clinical hold comes days after Intellia voluntarily paused enrollment and dosing in the same two studies.
Pfizer called Novo’s offer “reckless and unprecedented,” in a statement issued Thursday morning.
Nearly one-third of biotech and pharma professionals are thinking about leaving the U.S. to find biopharma jobs, according to a BioSpace LinkedIn poll. Career coaches discuss why people are considering relocating and what they should do before heading for the exit.
Looking for a biopharma job in New York? Check out the BioSpace list of eight companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
Generic versions of biologic drugs could hit the market without human trials and allow the market forces to bring down costs, HHS leaders said while announcing new draft guidance.
Late-breaking Phase III data show ianalumab, Novartis’ dual-targeted antibody, reduced disease activity and patient burden in Sjögren’s disease, the pharma reported at the American College of Rheumatology Convergence congress on Wednesday.
Genentech is letting go of 118 employees in South San Francisco. The news comes about two months after the biotech ended a partnership with Adaptive Biotechnologies.