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With data from a mid-stage trial showing weight loss of up to 12.3% at 28 weeks in patients treated with PF’3944, “Pfizer is moving full speed into obesity clinical development,” BMO Capital Markets said Tuesday.
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AstraZeneca’s $15 billion pledge to its China operations highlights the country’s advantages. But other regions are also hoping to host more clinical studies.
With Lykos’ regulatory failure now squarely in the rearview mirror, Compass Pathways and Definium are leading what one analyst suspects will be “a very big year for psychedelics.”
The Senate failed to pass a massive spending bill on Thursday—which includes the rare pediatric PRV program but also funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale crackdown in Minnesota and other states.
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Phacilitate’s annual event dawns as cell and gene therapies reach a new tipping point: the science has hit new heights just as regulatory and government policies spark momentum and frustration.
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For forms of Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s caused by genetic defects, gene therapy could change the treatment landscape.
The regulator accepted Karuna Therapeutics’ NDA and set a PDUFA date of September 26, 2024. If approved, it would be the first new mechanism of action to treat schizophrenia in decades, the company contends.
The troubled Indian pharma company received its second FDA warning letter in months, which this time cited quality control and data integrity lapses at its manufacturing facility in Gujarat, India.
The pharma giant is paying $9 million upfront to Phenomic AI to develop targets for stroma-rich cancers, some of the hardest cancers to treat, utilizing its single-cell RNA computing platform.
BioSpace spoke to analysts and players in the contract manufacturing and development organizations space to assess the challenges this year and what lies ahead in 2024.
This week on The Weekly we talk struggles with GLP-1 drug shortages and what that might mean for Novo and Lilly competitors; Regeneron and Sanofi positive results for Dupixent in COPD. Plus, Merck buys Caraway, Beigene’s deal with Ensem, ups and downs for Flagship.
In a deal with Tokyo-based PRISM BioLab, Eli Lilly will gain access to the Japanese biotech’s proprietary platform to develop small molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.
Using electronic health records, healthcare analytics firm Truveta contends that Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro (tirzepatide) could achieve stronger and faster weight loss than Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic (semaglutide).
Consider each company using three different criteria: its match with the candidate’s “why,” its financial health and its employee reviews.
The agency on Tuesday said it is investigating the “serious risk” of T cell malignancy outcomes, including hospitalization and death, and evaluating the need for potential regulatory action.