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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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While the trial was designed to test safety and not efficacy, patients treated with Araclon Biotech’s experimental ABvac40 vaccine saw a 38% drop in disease progression compared to placebo.
The company’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Arexvy can elicit similar levels of immune protection in adults aged 50 to 59 as in its approved population, finds results from a late-stage study.
In its most recent round of layoffs this year, the California-based biopharma company is letting go of 350 former Horizon Therapeutics staff whose roles overlap with existing positions at Amgen.
The oncology company added a fifth indication for its isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 inhibitor, securing the greenlight for treating patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic syndromes.
Even after the runaway success of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, the pathway to approval for upcoming would-be mRNA therapeutics has yet to be laid out.