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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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Overcoming an FDA rejection in January 2022, Pfizer and OPKO’s Ngenla will provide a long-acting, reduced-frequency treatment option for children with growth hormone deficiency.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled with Eli Lilly for $2.4 million after filing a suit in September over the company’s recruitment of younger workers.
Citing issues with a third-party contractor, the FDA rejected Regeneron’s regulatory application for a higher-dose regimen of Eylea, the company’s blockbuster eye injection treatment.
Despite a challenging economic climate and gloomy forecast, 2023 has still notched some mega-deals for biopharmas. BioSpace highlights the biggest deals in the industry this year.
The biopharma’s monoclonal antibody is the first to win approval for the two most common forms of generalized myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune and neuromuscular disorder.
Phase II results of MoonLake’s sonelokimab suggest superiority to the competition. Funds raised in the stock offering will support Phase III trials with an anticipated launch in 2027.
Though the topline data were sparse, Sanofi’s potentially first-in-class candidate amlitelimab improved Eczema Area and Severity Index scores in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.
An FDA advisory committee voted Wednesday that Ipsen’s fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive candidate palovarotene was effective and the benefits of the drug outweighed its risks.
Patients treated in a Phase II study with Lilly’s retatrutide saw up to 24% weight loss at 48 weeks, driven by a triagonist mode of action that can bind and activate the GLP-1, GIP and glucagon receptors.
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