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Going private could give Recordati strategic flexibility and a stable source of capital, according to CVC Capital Partners and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, which are offering to take the Italian pharma private for a 13% premium.
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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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Following a series of stumbles in Type 1 diabetes, Lexicon’s dual SGLT inhibitor sotagliflozin finally won the FDA’s approval in heart failure and will be marketed as Inpefa.
DUO-E trial data show AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, either alone or in combination with Lynparza, boosts progression-free survival in endometrial cancer.
Eli Lilly’s recently registered Phase IIIb SURMOUNT-5 trial will compare its Mounjaro with Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy in obese or overweight patients with weight-related health conditions.
The New York–based biotech will present data from a Phase I trial of 98 patients showing that fianlimab combined with Libtayo led to an overall response rate of 61% in advanced melanoma.
Bristol Myers Squibb’s Reblozyl induced nearly twice the red blood cell transfusion independence compared with the current standard treatment epoetin alfa for lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.
The company will present data at the oncology meeting showing the drug’s significant survival benefit in patients with advanced renal cancer and recurrent, persistent and metastatic cervical cancer.
The Massachusetts-based biopharma became the second company this week to drop its amyotrophic lateral sclerosis hopeful after it failed to elicit significant improvement compared with placebo.
Although still in early-stage testing, Ensysce Biosciences’ formulation has demonstrated the potential to address addiction problems associated with oral oxycodone.
The AI drug discovery company’s reorganization will include laying off around 180 employees and dropping its atopic dermatitis candidate BEN-2293 in an effort to save nearly $56 million.
The investigational kinase inhibitor failed to improve overall survival in the SAPPHIRE study of patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, causing Mirati to discontinue its development.