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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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GSK’s RSV vaccine candidate met its primary endpoint in a pivotal Phase III trial, proving to be highly effective against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease.
One year after BridgeBio won accelerated approval for liver cancer drug Truseltiq (infigratinib), the company is pulling a planned Phase III program due to its partner’s decision to discontinue the drug.
Relmada Therapeutics’ RELIANCE III trial studying REL-1017 as a treatment for Major Depressive Disorder failed to hit the primary endpoint, the company reported Thursday.
Odyssey Therapeutics raised $168 million in a Series B financing round, which will be used to advance its portfolio of immunomodulators and oncology therapies.
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As part of a realignment, GreenLight Biosciences is cutting staff by about 25%, the company announced Wednesday.
Terray Therapeutics and Calico Life Sciences struck a research and development collaboration focused on the development of small-molecule therapeutics for age-related diseases.
Vividion Therapeutics and Tavros Therapeutics entered into a five-year collaboration agreement, valued at up to $930 million, to discover and develop four novel oncology targets.
Novartis’ gene therapy Zolgensma is again under a cloud of doubt after Nature Biotechnology retracted its 2010 article noting “issues” regarding data cited in a key figure in the report.
Merck and Moderna are moving forward with a personalized cancer vaccine as Merck exercised its option to develop and commercialize mRNA-4157/V940, the companies announced Wednesday.