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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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.
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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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In its 2022 Q1 earnings report, Sanofi reported major wins in the first quarter of 2022, driven mostly by the success of consumer healthcare (CHC) and Dupixent.
Alexion shared the news that Ultomiris (ravulizumab-cwvz) has been approved by the FDA for commercialization, adding another indication for the precedent-setting drug.
Chimera’s research comes largely from its GOLD platform, a technology that reprograms RNA gene regulation circuits to alter chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) on T cells.
Sio Gene has terminated its licensing deal with the UMass to develop and commercialize two gene therapy product candidates to focus on more potentially profitable projects.
Amgen held its earnings conference call on Wednesday for Q1 of 2022. Most notably, the company provided updates on its ongoing litigation with the Internal Revenue Service.
The Q1 results for Voxzogo gave BioMarin the confidence to raise its 2022 full-year guidance to between $100 million to $125 million (net product revenue) for the drug.
Bryostatin-1 increases antigen expression on the surface of cancer cells, enabling them to be seen and killed by IO agents.
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals announced that Pfizer made a $25 million equity investment in the company.
Exogene nets $2 million to propel the development of its AI platform for T-cell receptor discovery and Healome spins out to deploy a ‘pro-healing’ platform with a focus on ocular surface diseases.
AviadoBio is celebrating orphan drug designations from both the U.S. FDA and the European Commission for AVB-101, a gene therapy intended to treat frontotemporal dementia (FTD).