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In its 2025 full year and fourth-quarter earnings call, Merck executives touted the merits of recent deals and what CEO Robert Davis called “probably the broadest and widest pipeline we’ve had in years.”
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After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
AstraZeneca’s $15 billion pledge to its China operations highlights the country’s advantages. But other regions are also hoping to host more clinical studies.
With Lykos’ regulatory failure now squarely in the rearview mirror, Compass Pathways and Definium are leading what one analyst suspects will be “a very big year for psychedelics.”
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ARS Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics and Taysha Gene Therapies this week got stark reminders of the difficulties in getting treatments through the regulator’s approval process.
Recent drug approvals have shone a light on the role that patient advocacy groups can play in the regulatory process—but some experts have questions about the ethics of this influence.
The companies, which are collaborating on a drug combination to treat locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer, announced Friday that their Phase III trial met dual primary endpoints.
The companies’ antibody-drug conjugate improved progression-free survival with a “trend in improvement” for overall survival in patients with HR-positive, HER2-low or negative breast cancer.
A U.S. federal court upheld a prior ruling in favor of Roche’s Genentech, finding that its blockbuster hemophilia treatment Hemlibra did not infringe on patent protections held by Takeda’s Baxalta.
Thursday’s FDA advisory committee rejection is the latest regulatory defeat for the company’s drug-device combo. The panel found that the benefits of the treatment did not outweigh its risks.
The company’s treatment for IgA nephropathy, sparsentan, failed to meet statistical significance by a measure of kidney function in a head-to-head confirmatory study versus irbesartan.
After announcing a $1 billion radiopharma deal with PeptiDream, Genentech signed a separate deal with Orionis Biosciences for its molecular glue degraders to target cancer and neurodegeneration.
Following a Type A meeting with the regulator, the biotech says it has clarity about the next steps in demonstrating remestemcel-L’s effectiveness in acute graft-versus-host disease.
Bouncing back from two Complete Response Letters, Alvotech’s BLA for its Humira biosimilar AVT02 has been accepted by the regulator with a target action date of Feb. 24, 2024.