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Treatment with the TROP2 ADC sac-TMT led to a 70% objective response rate and progression-free survival was “significantly improved” as compared to placebo—the second positive readout for the asset this week.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced intentions to acquire Sanofi’s stake in a drug they developed together, Libtayo (cemiplimab).
In partnership with the U.S. government, Evonik Industries is investing more than $200 million to build a lipid manufacturing facility in the United States.
Children under the age of five could be eligible to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine against COVID-19 as soon as late June.
Cassava Sciences is reeling after another journal retracted an article co-authored by a key collaborator on its experimental Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic, simufilam.
Repare Therapeutics announced a global cancer collaboration valued at up to $1.2 billion with Swiss pharma giant Roche for the development and commercialization of camonsertib.
Upstream Bio is focusing its efforts on an experimental treatment for severe asthma licensed from Astellas Pharma.
Most money moves happened in Europe this week, including a government-backed award for Parkinson’s disease research and seed funding for an RNA platform.
Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology is moving on from its current Fremont, California manufacturing facility, inking a lease deal to develop a manufacturing plant in Bothell, Washington.
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his contribution to life sciences and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.