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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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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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Artificial intelligence and a flood of data in the pharmaceutical industry will likely change some of the current functions of its data scientists, experts say, but the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies will remain key in this role.
President and COO Robert Michael will take over Richard Gonzalez’s CEO duties, AbbVie announced Tuesday. Gonzalez will become executive chairman of the board of directors.
The litigation alleges the regulator allowed its competitor Liquidia to skirt FDA precedents by amending an already pending NDA to add a PH-ILD indication instead of filing a new application.
After a slow start to 2023 in an uncertain economic climate, biopharma mergers and acquisitions are on the rise.
ViiV Healthcare and GSK’s Cabenuva in a Phase III study showed superior efficacy versus daily oral antiretroviral treatment in HIV patients with a history of difficulties in taking daily pills.
With over 20% of people born between 1997 and 2003 identifying as a sexual and gender minority, moderated panels at SCOPE 2024 discuss the need to engage this community in clinical trials.
Johnson & Johnson’s anti-BCMA antibody can now be dosed once every two weeks in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients who have achieved and maintained complete response for at least six months.
A federal judge in New Jersey has agreed to hear legal challenges from BMS, J&J, Novartis and Novo Nordisk to the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program during the same March 7 hearing.
This week Lori, Greg and Tyler discuss the Accelerated Approval of Amtagvi, the first one-time cell therapy for solid tumors and the first TIL therapy; the FTC and HHS probe into generic drug shortages and some recent ADC-focused raises from ProfoundBio and Firefly Bio.