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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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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 third-quarter results Tuesday, Amgen announced a $650 million write-down after discontinuing AMG 340, a prostate cancer candidate acquired in the $900 million buy of Tenobio in 2021.
Following the recent Chinook Therapeutics acquisition, the Novartis experimental IgA nephropathy therapeutic atrasentan significantly reduced protein in the urine of patients compared to placebo.
Despite failing to hit the primary endpoint in the Phase III EMBARK study, the company plans to file for a label expansion for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys.
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Loqtorzi is the first programmed death receptor-1 from China to be approved by the U.S. regulator, and the first for patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma across all lines of treatment.
In a briefing document for Tuesday’s advisory committee meeting, the FDA raised concerns about the potential off-target effects of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ investigational gene edited therapy.
The Japanese pharma’s attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder candidate has shown significant symptom improvements in children and adolescents in two late-stage studies.
Merck and Novartis beat expectations this week with solid third-quarter financial results, while BMS, Sanofi and Takeda spooked investors with negative near- and mid-term projections.