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In September last year, a group of concerned stockholders raised alarm about Vaxart’s proposed reverse stock split, which the biotech was pushing for despite strong opposition from shareholders.
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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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The Massachusetts-based company has claimed the year’s largest fundraise so far and secured a powerhouse R&D partner in Novo Nordisk to develop gene editing medicines.
The Massachusetts-based startup’s goal is to develop RNA medicines that can treat diseases anywhere in the body using an “all-in-one” platform.
The Swiss pharma has canceled a second mid-stage trial for its investigational schizophrenia drug ralmitaront, as the competition shows promise in the space.
With the FDA’s approval on Monday, Ayvakit is the first and only treatment for adults with indolent systemic mastocytosis, a rare hematologic disorder, according to Blueprint Medicines.
Indivior’s Opvee is an emergency nasal spray medication to reverse opioid overdose approved for patients aged 12 years and above with signs of respiratory or central nervous system depression.
Ex-FDA Neuroscience Director Billy Dunn was appointed to Prothena’s board of directors last week. Industry representatives and regulatory experts weigh in on the potential ethical implications.
Data from a Phase III trial of apraglutide for a type of short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure is expected by the end of the year. It is also in a Phase II study for acute graft-versus-host disease.
The 61-patient study met the primary endpoint of improved physiologic liver function and secondary endpoints, which included established non-alcoholic steatohepatitis biomarkers, Hepion reported Monday.
Sanofi and Regeneron reported positive results for the anti-inflammatory drug in a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease trial. The companies hope to see approval before a 2024 read-out of a second trial.
The topical treatment Vyjuvek got the FDA’s greenlight, making it the first redosable gene therapy and the first therapeutic for the rare skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.