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Treatment with the TROP2 ADC sac-TMT led to a 70% objective response rate and progression-free survival was “significantly improved” as compared to placebo—the second positive readout for the asset this week.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Kriya Therapeutics secured $270 million that will be used to advance its fully integrated gene therapy pipeline and expand engineering, manufacturing and computation.
Monday woes were shared by Bristol Myers Squibb and Synairgen, as their clinical trial candidates failed to perform as expected.
Clay Siegall resigned his role as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors of Seagen following domestic violence allegations. Roger Dansey will serve as interim CEO.
The changes are unlikely to help people in developing countries but could reduce innovation among biopharma companies and ultimately do more harm than good.
In addition to lowering of blood sugar, Mounjaro also enabled patients to lower their weight by 15 to 23 pounds. The drug compared well to other diabetes medications including Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has granted Orphan Drug designations to Editas Medicine and Neurocrine Biosciences.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America’s oral alternative to its own treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Achilles dosed the first patient in a Phase I/IIa advanced NSCLC trial, Logic Bio’s pediatric methylmalonic acidemia study is back up and running and another look at Roche’s TIGIT flop.
Genentech’s flop of its anti-TIGIT drug has cast a shadow of doubt over the numerous companies in the process of developing their own anti-TIGIT drugs.
New research from the Allen Institute for Immunology in Seattle has identified inflammatory proteins as a potential driver of the long COVID.