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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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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.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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.
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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’s Obstetrics Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted nearly unanimously to withdraw the approval of Covis’ preterm birth drug Makena.
While worthy advances have recently been made in sickle cell disease, companies such as Graphite Bio, bluebird bio, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Editas Medicine have loftier ambitions.
Massachusetts-based PIC Therapeutics has closed a $35 million Series A financing round centered around the advancement of its lead asset, a novel therapeutic for advanced metastatic breast cancer.
A Phase II trial studying PTC Therapeutics’ PTC518 in Huntington’s disease has been paused in the United States following a request from the FDA for additional data.
Jazz and Zymeworks entered into a $50 million licensing agreement over zanidatamab, Zymeworks’ bispecific antibody targeting HER2.
Advaxis and Ayala Pharmaceuticals entered a reverse merger deal to focus on two clinical-stage cancer therapies: AL102 for desmoid tumors and ADXS-504 for prostate cancer.
Backed by Pfizer, Merck KGaA and J&J, Nucleome Therapeutics secured £37.5 million (about $42.16 million) in an oversubscribed Series A financing round.
Ambrx Biopharma Inc. announced it will lay off 15% of its workforce and suspend development of its lead candidate in a strategic realignment initiative.
Genetic engineering company Empyrean Neurosciences stepped into the CNS arena with $22 million and a small molecule platform derived from plants and fungi.
Salarius Pharmaceuticals voluntarily paused enrollment of its Phase I/II trial of seclidemstat for Ewing sarcoma and FET-rearranged sarcomas after a patient’s death.