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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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Nusano will bring a massive new radioisotope facility in Salt Lake City online by the end of the year, establishing a supply of starting materials for the next generation of radiopharmaceuticals.
Last month, Revolution Medicines’ RAS inhibitor doubled survival in a Phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial. On the biotech’s heels are Immuneering, Actuate Therapeutics, Erasca and more, looking to improve on that result with increased tolerability—and more time for patients.
The recent approval of Regeneron’s Otarmeni underscores the maturation of gene therapies across a range of diseases. Here, BioSpace reviews genetic medicines in development for the central nervous system, retinal, cardiac and neuromuscular diseases.
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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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Mirum Pharmaceuticals announced that Livmarli oral solution met its primary endpoint in the Phase III MARCH study in young patients with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis.
BioMed X and Sanofi have inked an R&D collaboration to use digital data and artificial intelligence to predict the efficacy of first-in-class drug candidates using virtual patient populations.
PhaseBio plans to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sell off its bentracimab assets under a stalking horse arrangement with an unnamed “large pharmaceutical company.”
The FDA greenlit AstraZeneca’s tremelimumab in combination with its checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi as a treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
Alpine Immune Sciences has voluntarily terminated enrollment in two clinical trials of its immuno-oncology asset, davoceticept, after a second patient death.
Top-line data from Tricida’s VALOR-CKD trial showed veverimer failed to meet its primary endpoint and does not slow progression in patients with metabolic acidosis and CKD.
In a Phase III trial comparing Novartis’ experimental iptacopan against AstraZeneca’s Soliris and Ultomiris in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, iptacopan demonstrated superiority.
Myovant Sciences agreed to be acquired by Sumitovant Biopharma for $2.9 billion - three weeks after turning down a previous offer.
New data from Scholar Rock’s Phase II TOPAZ trial showed its investigational antibody apitegromab improves quality of life in types 2 and 3 spinal muscular atrophy patients.
The FDA released guidelines Thursday in an attempt to clarify processes for assessing a drug candidate’s efficacy while examining several endpoints, simultaneously.