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Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
When Ingram became Sarepta Therapeutics’ CEO in 2017, he didn’t have a connection to muscular dystrophy, but he has developed a fierce passion for the therapeutic area. He will step aside from his role to dedicate more time to his family.
LB Pharma needed $350 million to advance a promising schizophrenia candidate at a time when the biotech markets were locked up tight. Fortunately, it wasn’t CEO Heather Turner’s first rodeo.
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Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
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The clinical-stage company joins several others in the anti-CD47 space which have dropped studies amid poor results, including Gilead Sciences’ decision late last month to stop a Phase III trial.
Week in Review: Novo Nordisk Riding High, Novavax in the Black (For Now), Nektar Sues Lilly and More
Novo’s weight-loss drug Wegovy improves cardiovascular outcomes, Novavax posts surprise Q2 profit, while Nektar Therapeutics files lawsuit against Eli Lilly for misconduct in drug development deal.
If we want to make the UK a scientific superpower, we need to address the elephant in the room: the skills gap.
Ahead of an FDA decision in the third quarter, Regeneron is touting promising durability data from the Phase III PULSAR trial for higher-dose Eylea in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.
After reaching a settlement with Thermo Fisher earlier this month, the family of Henrietta Lacks is now suing Ultragenyx for its “unjust enrichment” using their matriarch’s immortal cell line.
Insilico’s AI platform has attracted interest from a growing number of biopharma companies. Meanwhile, several other firms highlight their own AI technologies.
The Supreme Court of the United States has granted the Department of Justice’s motion for a stay regarding Purdue’s bankruptcy case and is set to assess the legality of the settlement in December.
At AAIC, researchers presented studies using CRISPR-Cas9 in animal/organoid models of Alzheimer’s disease, but some experts doubt that such approaches will successfully translate to humans.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the mounting antitrust scrutiny of Illumina’s acquisition of the cancer diagnostics company, according to an SEC filing by the DNA sequencing giant.
The FDA has four decisions on deck this week, including ones for two rare disease treatments from Ipsen and Regeneron.