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Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
When Ingram became Sarepta Therapeutics’ CEO in 2017, he didn’t have a connection to muscular dystrophy, but he has developed a fierce passion for the therapeutic area. He will step aside from his role to dedicate more time to his family.
LB Pharma needed $350 million to advance a promising schizophrenia candidate at a time when the biotech markets were locked up tight. Fortunately, it wasn’t CEO Heather Turner’s first rodeo.
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Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
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Johnson & Johnson has licensed Nanobiotix’s lead radioenhancer candidate, designed to increase the efficacy of radiation treatment in cancers, capitalizing on the latter’s rocky financial situation.
The biotech will supply Canada with fewer doses of its coronavirus vaccine while reaching a financial agreement for the forfeiting of certain doses previously scheduled for delivery.
After an initial series of legal complaints in June, Novo Nordisk filed four new lawsuits Thursday against Florida and Tennessee pharmacies for allegedly selling products containing semaglutide.
Gene editing technologies are advancing rapidly in the clinic, with the potential first approval later this year, but challenges remain.
Phase III trial data published Thursday show significant survival benefit as a first-line treatment in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients not fit for standard platinum-based doublet chemotherapy.
Following the FDA’s full approval of the Alzheimer’s drug Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed broader coverage of Leqembi and released more details on a registry.
Thursday, Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi also became the first disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s to win traditional approval. CMS coverage is expected to begin immediately.
The European Medicines Agency recently flagged a safety signal related to GLP-1 receptor agonists and sent a list of questions to manufacturers including Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Sanofi and AstraZeneca.
The layoffs are a result of Sumitomo’s decision announced in April to combine its seven subsidiaries into one company.
The companies have signed two other pacts over the last year. In the latest deal, Takeda gains access to F-star’s platform to produce tetravalent antibodies for undisclosed oncology targets.