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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.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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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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The inspiration behind two blockbuster biopharma deals in 2023, anti-TLIA drugs have the potential to improve efficacy and durability of response for a number of autoimmune diseases, experts tell BioSpace.
ORI Capital announced Thursday that it has raised more than a quarter of a billion dollars for its second life sciences fund, which will invest in early-stage biotech companies using the firm’s proprietary AI-driven platform.
The settlement, which includes an upfront $75 million payment to Gavi, ends arbitration related to a 2021 advance purchase agreement involving Novavax’s prototype vaccine NVX-CoV2373.
Both Pfizer and Moderna surprised analysts with sales of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, yet the companies still need to manage declining revenues in the years to come.
While COVID vaccine revenue dropped 43% compared to the same period last year, Moderna on Thursday reported a profit of $217 million which beat analyst estimates, driven by deferred payments and cost savings.
With the departure of AbbVie and AstraZeneca from the trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has named new members to its leadership including Gilead Sciences chief Daniel O’Day.
After treatment with a CD19 CAR-T therapy, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, idiopathic inflammatory myositis or systemic sclerosis achieved long-lasting remission, according to results published in the NEJM.
On the heels of Takeda’s $300 million licensing deal for rusfertide, Protagonist Therapeutics’ peptide mimetic lowered hematocrit levels in patients with polycythemia vera, a type of blood cancer.
Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic announced Wednesday it is discontinuing its immuno-oncology program and will focus its R&D efforts on infectious diseases.
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