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Eli Lilly continues to spend its GLP-1 landfall with four new deals in the past week, including three in the vaccine space; the obesity leader also touted surgery-like results for its next-gen weight loss drug; Moderna’s stock climbs on the hantavirus “fear trade”; and in oncology, all eyes are on Revolution at ASCO this week.
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Partners Summit Therapeutics and Akeso are expected to steal the show at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual conference with data from their potential Keytruda rival, alongside Revolution Medicine’s groundbreaking pancreatic cancer candidate and other assets that could reshape patient care.
The tragic tale of TIGIT is well known. However, RIPK1, myc, STING and alpha-synuclein have also left a trail of failed clinical trials, canceled partnerships and sunk investments in their wake.
Analysts homed in on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy type 1 assets during first quarter earnings as major players like REGENXBIO and Novartis as well as Dyne, Wave, Solid and Sarepta near the regulatory finish line.
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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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Codagenix is entering the vaccine arena with a possible new frontrunner in protection: CoviLiv. It’s an intranasal COVID vaccine that provides hope against subvariants.
Biopharma and life sciences companies continue to strengthen their executive teams and boards with this week’s Movers & Shakers.
U.S. and Chinese regulators are edging toward a cooperation plan on Chinese companies that have stock listed on U.S. stock exchanges.
Alexion will pay Chugai $775 million in the second quarter of 2022 in exchange for the Japanese firm withdrawing the patent infringement lawsuits it filed in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Tetra Bio-Pharma announced that its investigational new drug involving cannabinoids, QIXLEEF, received guidance to strengthen its nonclinical and toxicological data from the FDA.
Alnylam is suing Moderna and Pfizer over patent infringements related to its lipid techQnology that have been foundational to the success of the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines.
This is the first approval for the drug in gastroenterology and was based on data from three Phase III trials.
There is some evidence that COVID-19 infection might be linked to an increase in diabetes, particularly Type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease most commonly diagnosed in children.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Biogen a second look into the patent dispute filed against Mylan for Biogen’s Multiple Sclerosis (MS) drug, Tecfidera.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization indefinitely postponed the evaluation of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.