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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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Shares of Horizon Therapeutics are soaring in premarket trading Wednesday after the rare disease company confirmed it is being courted for a potential acquisition by three pharma giants.
Nimbus reported positive Phase IIb results for NDI-034858 in moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, which researchers hope will have the efficacy of JAK inhibitors without the safety issues.
Nectin Therapeutics announced dosing of the first solid tumor patient in a Phase I clinical trial while additional investors jumped in to expand the company’s Series A to just over $25 million.
Full data from the Phase III Clarity AD trial show Eisai and Biogen’s lecanemab has a favorable safety profile in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
BigHat Biosciences will team up with Merck to design candidates for three drug discovery programs backed by the company’s proprietary AI technology platform.
BMS is terminating a seven-year-old gene therapy collaboration to develop potential treatments for congestive heart failure with uniQure N.V. valued at $1 billion.
With $96 million in Series A financing, Cajal Neuroscience launched Tuesday to develop drug candidates to target neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
As the FDA cracks down on accelerated approvals, Genentech, a Roche company, voluntarily withdrew its monoclonal antibody, Tecentriq, for metastatic bladder cancer.
AstraZeneca and Neogene have entered into a definitive acquisition agreement in which AstraZeneca will buy all outstanding equity in the smaller company.
A second patient death has been linked to the Phase III clinical trial of Eisai and Biogen’s investigational Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, according to the journal Science.