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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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The FDA released guidelines Thursday in an attempt to clarify processes for assessing a drug candidate’s efficacy while examining several endpoints, simultaneously.
Shares of Immunic stock have plunged more than 70% in premarket trading after an early peek at its Phase Ib psoriasis drug candidate has so far failed to distinguish itself from placebo.
Johnson & Johnson will lay off 64 employees from its Manhattan-based pharmaceutical supplies business in the early part of 2023.
The proxy battle between Mereo BioPharma and Rubric Capital Management will come to a head on Nov. 18. Mereo issued a shareholder circular on Friday.
Kite Pharma entered into a global licensing deal with Refuge Biotechnologies to leverage the latter’s propriety gene expression plaform and develop potential blood cancer therapies.
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With the appointment of new CEOs, CMOs and CSOs, biopharma and life sciences organizations shuffled their leadership positions as Q3 comes to a close.
AbbVie is buying DJS Antibodies for $225 million in cash to gain access to the British company’s potential fibrotic diseases drug and antibody discovery program.
Erasca announced that it was expanding its existing partnership with Pfizer to assess its ERAS-007 in combination with the Big Pharma’s Ibrance.
Roche and Austria-based Hookipa Pharma tied up a licensing and research and development collaboration valued at more than $950 million focused on KRAS-mutated cancers.