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Novo Nordisk CEO Maziar Mike Doustdar acknowledged the market pressure facing the company’s GLP-1 products but sought to assure investors that Novo has the situation under control.
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Analysts parsed the limited data available for Pfizer’s obesity candidate on the pharma’s fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday, looking for any nugget of additional context.
After advancing in lockstep through the pandemic, the fortunes of the biotechs have diverged as their use of COVID-19 windfalls has taken shape.
After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
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Embattled SQZ Biotechnologies announced Tuesday that the Swiss biotech will not exercise its option for HPV 16 positive solid tumors under the SQZ-APC-HPV program.
The biotech’s “Fit for Growth” program, which includes the headcount reduction, is expected to generate a net savings of $700 million on operating expenses by 2025.
Late-stage data, which showed significant overall and progression-free survival benefits in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma patients, supports Elevar’s New Drug Application filed in May 2023.
The license and option deal, for an undisclosed amount, seeks to develop potentially first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate candidates against different oncology targets.
Following two BLA rejections for its Humira biosimilar, Alvotech is expanding its partnership with Teva Pharmaceuticals, which will enable the latter to have greater involvement with quality and control.
Company shares fell over 50% after two late-stage studies failed to demonstrate vision improvements in patients with diabetes macular edema.
The Danish vaccine maker’s respiratory syncytial virus candidate did not meet all primary endpoints in a late-stage study in older adults and the company is discontinuing the program.
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With an upfront payment of $310 million in cash, Roche is partnering with Alnylam to develop the latter’s RNA interference candidate zilebesiran for hypertension patients with high cardiovascular risk.
Despite the lifting of the FDA’s partial clinical hold, Gilead will discontinue magrolimab’s development in higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes after a Phase III study met the bar for futility.