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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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.
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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 might only have two PDUFA dates on the calendar this week, but all eyes in the neurodegenerative disease community will be on the first one: Amylyx’s AMX0035 for ALS.
September 24 is World Cancer Research Day, and September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. BioSpace spoke with leaders from three companies tackling pediatric glioma.
Recently published research into repairing nerve damage caused by injury may also pay off in treating some of the most vexing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
NovoCure announced the launching of a U.S.-based arm to focus on and attempt to grow its glioblastoma (GBM) business and increase its patient population.
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted 14-2 against Oncopeptides’ Pepaxto, a drug that has been on the market since 2021 for multiple myeloma under accelerated approval.
The FDA will meet Friday to discuss the future of Secura Bio’s Copiktra (duvelisib), which has been approved as a third-line treatment for relapsed or refractory CLL/SLL.
This week, researchers delivered insights and breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, Long COVID, immuno-oncology and inflammatory diseases.
Merck announced positive results on its patent infringement case against Viatris, while Amgen faces political headwinds from the White House.
One-year data indicates Biogen’s tofersen for SOD1-ALS, slows the decline of the disease through the lowering of SOD1 protein and neurofilament levels.
AstraZeneca has decided to drop the hypercholesterolemia candidate AZD8233 through to Phase III, despite meeting its Phase IIb primary efficacy endpoint, its partner Ionis announced Friday.