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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.
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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.
BioSpace examines how the FDA approval of Eli Lilly’s oral obesity drug Foundayo has ignited a key race with Novo Nordisk.
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.
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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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Wegovy’s highest dose significantly improved physical function and quality of life in obese patients with heart failure, according to results published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Amid one of the industry’s steepest patent cliffs, the regulator Thursday approved Sandoz’s Tyruko, the first biosimilar for treating relapsing multiple sclerosis in adults. Sandoz is a division of Novartis.
The world’s largest buyer of biopharma royalties is paying $300 million up front and $200 million in milestone payments for Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ FDA-approved bladder cancer drug Adstiladrin.
In the next two weeks, the FDA will hand out regulatory verdicts to BMS, Outlook Therapeutics and BioLineRx.
Data suggests divarasib could be more potent than already approved KRAS inhibitors from Amgen and Mirati, but the study’s authors caution against cross-trial comparisons.
The consumer healthcare brand is joining the growing biosimilars market in the U.S. with its new subsidiary Cordavis, which will market a Humira biosimilar as its first product.
To successfully compete against one another and Big Pharma for top talent, biotech companies need to do a better job of selling themselves.
Spurred by an “inadvertent” disclosure, Roche’s Genentech on Wednesday released interim and immature overall survival findings for its anti-TIGIT antibody tiragolumab in non-small cell lung cancer.
Under the $1.4 billion Project NextGen initiative, Regeneron was awarded a $326 million grant for its preventive monoclonal antibody, while Johnson & Johnson got $10 million to bankroll startups.
The RET kinase inhibitor showed “statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements” in progression-free survival compared to Exelixis’ Cabometyx and Sanofi’s Caprelsa.