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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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Pfizer is leveraging its funding and experience with vaccines, developing its meningococcal, flu, and RSV vaccines. It also announced its venture investment in Nimbus Therapeutics.
Gala Therapeutics and Galaxy Medical will be folded into Galvanize Therapeutics to continue to develop their electric pulse therapies for bronchitis, cardiac arrhythmias and solid tumors.
NSCLC At ESMO: Pollution does indeed cause lung cancer; Tecentriq shows promise in poor prognosis patients, Amgen makes progress in KRAS G12-mutated disease and an update on a Daiichi Sankyo ADC.
Biden issued an executive order to keep U.S.-based innovation ahead of advances made by counterparts in China biotechnology and biomanufacturing Monday.
This week was rife with Series financings, which channeled money into innovative treatments for immune diseases and cancers, genomic treatments and precision healthcare.
Bayer CEO Werner Baumann may be on the way out. For the past several years, Baumann has been in the sites of angry shareholders but has evaded an ouster. That soon may be over.
With $165 million in the bank, Capstan launched Wednesday to combine the potency of cell therapy with the precision of genetic medicines against various difficult-to-treat diseases.
A Manhattan court dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis, which had alleged the company paid doctors to promote its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya.
Oramed announced positive mid-stage data that showed its investigational drug ORMD-0801 reduced liver fat content in type 2 diabetes patients who have been diagnosed with NASH.
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