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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.
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.
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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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At a panel Friday, “Boston’s Booming Biotech System,” experts from industry and academia weighed in on the financial repercussions of 2022 and what it portends for 2023.
Amgen is implementing organizational changes including laying off approximately 300 team members, confirmed Monday.
Novartis’ SCD therapeutic Adakveo is under review by the EMA after failing to replicate previous efficacy results in a Phase III trial.
The FDA granted Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca accelerated approval for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) voiced concerns to the FTC regarding the prospective acquisitions of Horizon Pharmaceuticals and Opiant Pharmaceuticals by Amgen and Indivior.
Celularity announced Thursday it was conducting a strategic review and warned its workforce to brace for potential layoffs.
XyloCor Therapeutics reported positive topline results Thursday from Phase II of the Phase I/II trial of its gene therapy for refractory angina.