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After years of suffering from a bear market and more than 14 months of geopolitical turmoil shaking the macroenvironment, biotech appears to be moving on.
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New guidelines from two leading medical associations suggest that efforts to reduce bad cholesterol should focus on maintaining low levels of two key lipoproteins. Big pharma is all in, looking to improve on the standard statins to help vanquish America’s number one killer: heart disease.
The FDA’s decision last year to make complete response letters public provides new insight into why therapies sometimes fail to get the regulatory greenlight. Analysts say the information could help sponsors refine their regulatory strategies.
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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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health department has consistently touted radical transparency as being key to its mission. Recent instances—the FDA’s decision not to disclose the recipients of three Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers and FDA and CDC choices not to publish vaccine-related papers—call this intent into question.
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Boston-based Covant Therapeutics gained $10 million upfront in a deal with Boehringer Ingelheim to chase after a cancer immunotherapy target, ADAR1.
Tuesday, Viking Therapeutics released Phase I results for its weight-loss candidate VK2735, which demonstrated a good safety and tolerability profile and resulted in significant weight reductions.
Intra-Cellular Therapies’ Caplyta met its primary endpoint in the Phase III Study 403 trial, easing the burden of depressive episodes in patients with major depressive disorder or bipolar depression.
Bristol Myers Squibb is expanding its strategic collaboration with German partner Evotec for eight more years to discover and develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
Bicycle Therapeutics and Novartis announced Tuesday they have inked a deal worth up to $1.7 billion to discover and develop targeted radioligand therapies in oncology.
Monopar Therapeutics is dropping its lead candidate, Validive, after it failed to meet efficacy markers in Phase IIb/III trials for severe oral mucositis.
Merck’s Keytruda appeared to outperform GSK’s Jemperli in a key endometrial cancer patient subgroup, based on late-stage data revealed Monday during the Society of Gynecologic Oncology 2023 Annual Meeting.
Despite a tough financing market, ArriVent Biopharma closed a $155 million Series B to fund a pivotal Phase III trial of its non-small cell lung cancer asset.
UNITY Biotechnology’s lead asset, UBX1325, failed to show non-inferiority to Regeneron’s blockbuster Eylea in a Phase II wet age-related macular degeneration trial.
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