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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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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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Shares of Massachusetts-based Minerva Neurosciences dropped Monday after the FDA issued a Refuse to File letter for the company’s schizophrenia drug, roluperidone.
Biogen announced the FDA has extended its review for ALS drug tofersen by three months. The regulator set a new PDUFA action date set of April 25, 2023.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals reported highly positive data from its Phase III RAPID trial of etripamil in paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) patients.
Sage Therapeutics and Biogen’s zuranolone met its primary and key secondary endpoints in the Phase III SKYLARK study of women with postpartum depression (PPD).
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Kineta struck a collaboration deal with Merck to pair its anti-VISTA monoclonal antibody with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a potential treatment for advanced solid tumors.
Gilead Sciences and MacroGenics entered into a licensing and collaboration pact worth up to $1.7 billion to develop a bispecific antibody to treat hematological cancers.
NeuBase announced a strategic restructuring, diverting resources from its Huntington’s program and shedding 60% of its workforce.
SURGE Therapeutics announced $26 million in Series A financing to address surgery-induced immune suppression and prevent post-surgical cancer recurrence and metastasis.
After suffering a blow to its multi-billion dollar liver cancer program, BridgeBio presented early but promising data in ultra-rare Canavan disease.