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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
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The FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program missed reauthorization at the last minute in 2024; advocates have been fighting to get it back ever since.
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The Novo-Catalent deal now moving ahead highlights unprecedented investment in manufacturing, while also standing out as an exception to the unspoken rule of keeping M&As to less than $5 billion this year.
The vaccine maker previously revealed plans to slash R&D budget to conserve cash for product launches, but after a rough year of consistent share value decline, analysts remain skeptical.
The Phase III win could help Regeneron and Bayer expand into retinal vein occlusion, a move that the partners need to help shore up sales of their Eylea franchise amid biosimilar encroachment.
Both vibostolimab and favezelimab have had disappointing runs leading up to their termination, sustaining several late-stage failures.
The FDA cited issues with a manufacturing facility as the reason for the rejection. J&J is currently “working closely” with the regulator to resolve these problems.
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Bristol Myers Squibb aims to generate around $1.5 billion in savings through 2025—a goal that it hopes to reach by lowering third-party expenditures, focusing only on key growth brands and cutting some 2,200 jobs by year-end.
The FDA has put a stop to U.S. initiation of PepGen’s Phase II trial for its Duchene muscular dystrophy treatment. The company faced the same hurdle for an earlier neuromuscular candidiate in 2023.
Novo’s latest investment comes just days after the U.S. FTC greenlit the highly contentious acquisition of Catalent, which analysts expect will help the pharma expand its production capacity.
The Nimble acquisition, which follows the $1.4 billion buy of Aliada Therapeutics in October, will help AbbVie rebuild and cement its long-term growth prospects following the Phase II failure of emraclidine in schizophrenia and in anticipation of market erosion for Skyrizi and Rinvoq, according to Guggenheim Partners analysts.