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The Senate failed to pass a massive spending bill on Thursday—which includes the rare pediatric PRV program but also funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale crackdown in Minnesota and other states.
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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
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Phacilitate’s annual event dawns as cell and gene therapies reach a new tipping point: the science has hit new heights just as regulatory and government policies spark momentum and frustration.
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Companies and patients alike are questioning the Federal Trade Commission’s challenges to various biopharma agreements.
Shares of several biopharma companies in the CAR-T space dropped after the FDA’s announcement, but analysts remain optimistic about the sector’s future.
Carl Icahn is seeking to get rid of “legacy conflicted directors” on Illumina’s board following the announcement that GRAIL will be divested after a drawn out antitrust battle with regulators.
Israel-based cancer immunotherapy company Compugen will receive $60 million upfront from Gilead for the license to its antibody, which blocks the interaction between the IL-18 binding protein and IL-18.
The combination of Jemperli and chemotherapy followed by Zejula improved progression-free survival in a late-stage study of patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.
While the candidate was effective in Phase III results, Point’s stock price fell following the announcement.
A GLP-1-based drug from Structure Therapeutics shows clinical promise but not enough for some on Wall Street.
BMS will halt a trial investigating the Opdulag combination in colorectal cancer after determining that it would not hit its primary endpoint.
There is no evidence that the lapses have harmed patients who received Spikevax or clinical trial participants who received investigational shots.
Following a U.S. appeals court decision, the company said it is preparing to divest GRAIL through a third-party sale or capital markets transaction.