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The pharma industry is staring down the barrel of a widespread loss of exclusivity, with more than 190 products going off-patent between 2022 and 2030. Here are some strategies company are employing to manage the drop in revenue.
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Following FDA rejections, Regeneron and Scholar Rock are turning to other facilities to clear regulatory logjams created by quality problems at an ex-Catalent facility in Indiana. Novo Nordisk, meanwhile, has been tight-lipped about whether its own FDA applications have been affected.
As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.
This year has seen the approval of several first-in-class therapies for HAE, but in a fragmented space, experts question whether they will be enough to net their developers a significant share of the entrenched market.
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Allogene Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic CAR T products for cancer, announced the virtual unveiling of its manufacturing facility, Cell Forge 1, located in Newark, California.
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The country is considering restricting the use of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic to just type 2 diabetes and prohibiting its prescription for weight loss as the company struggles with continued supply constraints.
The regulator has approved the first-ever subcutaneous version of infliximab, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody, commonly sold by Johnson & Johnson under the brand name Remicade.
The companies presented data from two pivotal studies of Dato-DXd, focusing on safety concerns and survival data for the investigational antibody-drug conjugate candidate in lung and breast cancer.
Pluvicto improved radiographic progression-free survival in PSMA-positive patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had not been treated with taxane-based chemotherapy.
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A first-in-class clinical trial will initiate this quarter to determine if a checkpoint agonist can down-regulate activated T cells to help reduce inflammation and tissue damage in patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (UC).
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The Swiss drugmaker gains rights to RVT-3101 in the U.S. and Japan. Telavant was formed in late 2022 by Roivant and Pfizer, which had a 25% stake in the venture and retains rights to the antibody in other countries.
The competitors posted promising survival data for their respective blockbuster PD-1 inhibitors—Keytruda and Opdivo—emphasizing the potential of these therapies in bladder cancer patients.
The label for the achondroplasia drug, which promotes endochondral bone growth, now covers children under five years of age with the rare genetic disease causing the most common form of dwarfism.