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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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The FDA is gearing up for deadlines and PDUFA dates in mid-November with Seagen, Provention, Clarus and Tolmar, and Ligand and Travere.
Apellis is submitting additional 24-month efficacy data to supplement the NDA for its intravitreal candidate pegcetacoplan for GA secondary to AMD.
Rubius Therapeutics plans to initiate a large restructuring initiative, which includes laying off 84% of its staff and a possible sale, the company announced Wednesday.
The executive shuffle continues across the biopharma industry as companies shore up leadership needs with these Movers & Shakers.
Cassava filed a lawsuit in federal court against individuals linked to a Citizen’s Petition filed with the FDA that raised concerns about data manipulation in a clinical study of simufilam.
Genentech made approximately 35 presentations at ECTRIMS involving blockbuster MS drug Ocrevus drug, with a focus on relapsing-remitting MS and continuing safety studies.
Regeneron called it quits on an experimental osteoarthritis pain treatment that has raised safety flags and an experimental antibody for cat-allergic asthma.
Abeona Therapeutics will head to the FDA next year for the potential approval of its experimental recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) therapy following positive Phase III data.
Emalex Biosciences closed a Series D funding round Thursday counting $250 million in earnings, much of which will bankroll a Phase III trial of ecopipam for Tourette syndrome.
Exelixis has inked a licensing agreement with Catalent to gain access to three of Catalent’s target programs with antibody and ADC candidates, the companies announced Thursday.