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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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Adaptimmune has had a manic Tuesday, touting improved efficacy numbers for its T-cell candidate while also dealing with economic repercussions of its terminated partnership with GSK.
GSK is planning a Phase III trial evaluating bepirovirsen as a potential functional cure for chronic hepatitis B infection, despite the most recently released data appearing less robust than the interim analyses.
Sanofi entered into a partnership with Insilico Medicine to develop drugs for up to six targets. The deal is worth a potential $1.2 billion.
Juvena Therapeutics pulled in $41 million in Series A financing to advance research into the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins to target chronic and age-related diseases.
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed an investigational vaccine that can safely elicit an immune response against the HER2 protein, a key marker in breast cancer.
A request for additional data may cause a 3-month delay for potential approval of BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s hemophilia A gene therapy.
Sanofi inked a research collaboration and license agreement with Stockholm, Sweden-based Salipro Biotech to develop therapeutic antibodies or small molecules that target membrane proteins.
The FDA presented briefing documents Monday outlining what it called “uncertainties” in the data presented by Veru regarding its COVID-19 antiviral. An advisory committee will meet Wednesday.
AbbVie’s investigational neurotoxin, designed to prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation, missed the primary endpoint in a Phase II trial, the company announced Monday.
Sensorium Therapeutics, which closed a $30 million Series A Tuesday, is embracing the complexity of neuropsychiatric diseases with nature-inspired psychoactive medicines.