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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.
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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.
Saol Therapeutics is the latest biotech to resubmit for approval of a drug rejected under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, following REGENXBIO and Replimune.
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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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Sanofi has terminated its global development and commercialization pact with Revolution Medicines, Inc. for their SHP2 inhibitor drug candidate,
Novartis reported Thursday that a Phase III trial of iptacopan met its primary endpoint in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) - the company’s second win in this indication in as many months.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals agreed to a collaboration deal with Entrada Therapeutics. The two companies announced a collaboration to develop an intracellular Endosomal Escape Vehicle.
Relmada’s investigational NDMA receptor channel blocker, REL-1017, failed to meet its primary endpoint in major depressive disorder in the Phase III RELIANCE I trial.
With $47 million in hand, Dantari launched Thursday to advance its Targeted High-capacity Drug Conjugate technology – its take on an antibody-drug conjugate - for solid tumors.
AVROBIO is planning a Phase II/III registrational trial for its Gaucher Disease Type 3 (GD3) gene therapy candidate, AVR-RD-02, in 2023.
In the heated race for a new respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults, Pfizer gained ground on GSK after winning priority review designation for its vaccine candidate.
Neurocrine’s NBI-827104 failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase II study for epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep, the company announced Tuesday.
Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim declared another victory Wednesday for Jardiance – this one for children and adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes.
Findings from the Phase II ARTEMIS-UC and Phase IIa APOLLO-CD trials show that Prometheus’ PRA023 is potentially safe and effective for treating ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.