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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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Ambrx Biopharma Inc. announced it will lay off 15% of its workforce and suspend development of its lead candidate in a strategic realignment initiative.
Genetic engineering company Empyrean Neurosciences stepped into the CNS arena with $22 million and a small molecule platform derived from plants and fungi.
Salarius Pharmaceuticals voluntarily paused enrollment of its Phase I/II trial of seclidemstat for Ewing sarcoma and FET-rearranged sarcomas after a patient’s death.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced Tuesday morning it has struck a $70 million deal with Tempus in exchange for expanded access to Tempus’ AI-based patient data platform.
Ikena Oncology and AstraZeneca have entered into an agreement to evaluate Tagrisso (osimertinib) with Ikena’s IK-930 in EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.
Eli Lilly is acquiring precision medicine biotech Akouos for $487 million in cash in a deal focused on developing gene therapies for hearing loss.
As part of its third-quarter report, Roche announced it has cut two Phase II programs, one for hepatitis B and the other for geographic atrophy, a form of eye disease.
Mereo BioPharma will cut 40% of its headcount and significantly reduce expenses to support the advancement of its lead programs through the clinic.
An analysis of un-blinded interim data showed fosgonimeton provided clinically meaningful improvements in cognition and function in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
Shares of Massachusetts-based Minerva Neurosciences dropped Monday after the FDA issued a Refuse to File letter for the company’s schizophrenia drug, roluperidone.