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Treatment with the TROP2 ADC sac-TMT led to a 70% objective response rate and progression-free survival was “significantly improved” as compared to placebo—the second positive readout for the asset this week.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
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.
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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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The trial evaluated crenezumab’s ability to slow Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively unimpaired people with a specific gene mutation that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Covis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the company a hearing for its controversial drug Makena, which is intended to reduce preterm births.
This week sees Exelixis, BioInvent, ImmunoGen and Oxford BioTherapeutics coming together to develop antibody-based therapies for cancer.
Biogen has terminated its asset purchase agreement with Karyopharm Therapeutics, putting a halt to the development of KPT-350 (BIIB100), which was being evaluated as a treatment for ALS.
An FDA advisory committee voted Wednesday to recommend both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old.
Dr. Soon-Shiong and ImmunityBio are on the final leg of what they hope will be the FDA approval of their drug N-803 (anktiva) for the treatment of bladder cancer.
Clover dosed the first participants in a Phase III study of its COVID-19 booster shot, while Global Access Diagnostics, Orbit Discovery, Proximie and more provide business and pipeline updates.
Representation of women in biotech is nearing parity, but this is not reaching the executive level, where there is still stark disparity.
A recent study found that over a span of ten years, the FDA approved cancer drugs approximately eight months earlier than the same drugs were greenlit by the European Commission (EC).
Since 2020, the life sciences industry has worked to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. But one sector’s growth has far outpaced the others–the biotech industry.