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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Avillion and Diadem recently announced clinical results, providing positive news for patients with multiple myeloma, asthma and Alzheimer’s disease.
The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting kicked off Monday with multiple presentations highlighting the potential of new treatments for a myriad of diseases.
Orphazyme has several products with potential, with biopharma company KemPharm acquiring nearly all of the company’s assets and operations.
Akebia Therapeutics’s partner Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. announced plans to terminate its global license agreements with Akebia for vadadustat.
BioSpace sat down with Axogen’s Chief Human Resources Officer Maria Martinez to understand why now is the best time to make the switch to pharma and biotech.
Kriya Therapeutics secured $270 million that will be used to advance its fully integrated gene therapy pipeline and expand engineering, manufacturing and computation.
Monday woes were shared by Bristol Myers Squibb and Synairgen, as their clinical trial candidates failed to perform as expected.
Clay Siegall resigned his role as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors of Seagen following domestic violence allegations. Roger Dansey will serve as interim CEO.
The changes are unlikely to help people in developing countries but could reduce innovation among biopharma companies and ultimately do more harm than good.
In addition to lowering of blood sugar, Mounjaro also enabled patients to lower their weight by 15 to 23 pounds. The drug compared well to other diabetes medications including Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide.