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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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Novartis announced that its Kisqali with endocrine therapy offered almost a year of progression-free survival (PFS) for an aggressive form of HER+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer.
Apogee Therapeutics sprang onto the immunology/inflammatory scene Wednesday heavy on capital but light on salient details of the pipeline.
Karuna Therapeutics appointed Bill Meury as its new president and chief executive officer, succeeding its current head, Steve Paul.
Editas Medicine released positive proof of concept data Tuesday morning from the first patients dosed with its experimental CRISPR-based gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
Entact Bio launched with $81 million Tuesday to advance its protein enhancement platform.
Topline results from the Phase II TORREY study showed Gossamer Bio’s seralutinib met its primary efficacy endpoint in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Mirati’s adagrasib demonstrated a solid safety profile in new data released Monday. Despite this, the company’s stock fell 8% in after-hours trading.
MEI Pharma, Inc. will have a strategic realignment that would see at least 30% of its workforce laid off and a pivot towards two of its earlier clinical-stage assets.
Monday, Verve Therapeutics revealed that the FDA has officially requested several buckets of additional safety information to lift the hold on its lead candidate, VERVE-101.
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