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Bispecific antibodies and anti-TIGIT therapies both appear to be writing comeback stories as cancer experts head to Barcelona for the 2024 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress. Radioligand therapies and synthetic lethality assets are also attracting attention.
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As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.
This year has seen the approval of several first-in-class therapies for HAE, but in a fragmented space, experts question whether they will be enough to net their developers a significant share of the entrenched market.
The record-setting government shutdown was just the latest blow to the U.S. biopharma industry. When science funding becomes a casualty of political gridlock, we lose valuable talent, erode public trust and jeopardize our position as a global leader in innovation.
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Moderna, Inc. today announced that the U.S. government has secured 66 million doses of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster candidate, mRNA-1273.222, a bivalent booster candidate containing Spikevax™ plus the Omicron BA.4/5 strain mRNA.
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Unpredictable communication and a lack of transparency are eroding the industry’s and the public’s trust. The FDA, experts agree, needs to take control of the narrative.
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The regulator has approved Eyenovia and Formosa’s ophthalmic clobetasol propionate solution to ease eye inflammation and pain after surgery, with a potential $1.3 billion market.
Hugel America has won the FDA’s approval for Letybo, authorized for the treatment of frown lines in adults, which is poised to challenge AbbVie’s blockbuster Botox.
Exosomes show potential to treat myriad conditions, including cancer and inflammation, but experts are divided on whether the therapies are ready for the limelight.
As BridgeBio’s acoramidis inches closer to an FDA approval decision, Bayer on Monday inked a European licensing agreement for the transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy treatment.
Pfizer’s oncology strategy to build up its biologics portfolio and dramatically reduce small molecules was influenced by the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price negotiation provisions.
New 96-week data show Akero Therapeutics’ efruxifermin can improve fibrosis by at least one stage without metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis worsening in more patients versus placebo.
Amid the limitations of current therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a new GlobalData report points to novel disease-modifying drug approaches that could transform the space.
Rybrevant has been approved for use with carboplatin and pemetrexed in the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with exon 20 insertion mutations in the EGFR gene.
A federal court in Delaware ruled Friday that the pharma company had no “entitlement” to any price above what the buyer is willing to pay.
FogPharma’s latest financing round will help fund the ongoing clinical development of the company’s potential first-in-class intracellular TCF-blocking β-catenin inhibitor being evaluated in a Phase I/II study.