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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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Stoke Therapeutics is gearing up for a pivotal trial of its lead program for a rare genetic epilepsy disease and announced positive results from its Phase I/IIa study in children with Dravet syndrome.
Indivior PLC announced it will acquire Opiant Pharmaceuticals and its lead candidate OPNT003, an intranasal-delivered opioid overdose recovery product.
During its third-quarter earnings call Monday, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics emphasized its commitment to seek an advisory committee meeting for NurOwn in ALS.
Topline results from the Phase III SUMMIT trial showed Satsuma Pharmaceuticals’ migraine candidate STS101 did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals inked a collaboration deal with Metagenomi with the goal of adding DNA editing to its RNA-targeted technologies focused on up to four genetic targets.
MBX Biosciences secured $115 million in Series B financing to advance its pipeline of Precision Endocrine Peptides for endocrine disorders.
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Roche announced its investigational antibody gantenerumab failed to meet the primary endpoints in GRADUATE I and II - two Phase III studies in Alzheimer’s disease.
Early data from a combination of Cue Biopharma’s CUE-101 and Keytruda shows the treatment is effective in patients with recurrent/metastatic HPV16+ head and neck cancer.
PACT Pharma shared results of a first-of-its-kind trial using CRISPR technology to swap a gene in a patient’s immune cell to treat solid tumors.