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Update: Reversal after 20 deaths allows new Japan patients to take Amgen’s rare disease drug Tavneos
Kissei Pharmaceutical is reversing a recommendation related to Amgen-shared Tavneos that it made just a few days ago, now saying the rare disease drug can be given to new patients.
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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 FDA’s decision to lift the hold directive on April 11 involving the investigational drug magrolimab follows a comprehensive review of each trial’s safety data.
As Aeglea presents the data this week at the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD), its stock has responded to both announcements with a strong leap.
EXUMA Biotech is developing a new modality to produce CAR cells in a single day, with potentially lower toxicity and higher efficacy without the need for preparative chemotherapies.
Cytovia could become the first company to use a combination of natural killer (NK) cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and NK engager antibodies to treat solid tumors.
Veru posted positive interim Phase III data from its late-stage study assessing oral antiviral sabizabulin in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here’s more about it.
Curis, a biotech company that develops treatments for cancer, has announced that the FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on its TakeAim lymphoma study.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting is running from April 7-13 in New Orleans. Here’s a look at some of the preclinical and early-stage studies recently presented.
Some researchers are pointing to the need for an intranasal approach to vaccination in order to block the viral particles from gaining a foothold in the body at the point of entry – the nose.
Following the decision to limit the coverage of Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, the Alzheimer’s community is now waiting for other companies to deliver new therapies.
The week began with new partnerships formed in the life sciences industry as several firms entered into licensing deals and collaboration commitments. Here’s a look at the latest.