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Treatment with the TROP2 ADC sac-TMT led to a 70% objective response rate and progression-free survival was “significantly improved” as compared to placebo—the second positive readout for the asset this week.
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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 Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) has recommended 14-1 that the two companies conduct a trial applicable to the U.S. population.
The speakers extolled the benefits of telehealth while noting the challenges posed by a lack of high-speed Internet in some parts of the country.
Well into the new year, biopharma and life sciences companies bolster their executive leadership teams and boards with these Movers & Shakers.
The London-based Financial Times reported that 83% of companies listed on stock exchanges over the past two years are now trading well below their initial public offering price.
kENUP had called the mRNA vaccine efforts in Africa “doomed to fail” since the project likely infringes on BioNTech and Moderna patents on the vaccine.
Shares of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals are sliding in morning trading despite the news that the company’s revenues grew by 83% in 2021 compared to the previous year.
Ardelyx has reported in a regulatory filing that the FDA sent an Appeal Denied Letter for its drug tenapanor, a therapeutic intended for chronic kidney disease.
Bayer joined in the $50 million Series A for San Francisco’s Indapta Therapeutics.
As AstraZeneca released its 2021 annual financial report, a BBC documentary suggested that the way scientists and politicians politicized its COVID-19 vaccine may have cost lives.
It’s uncertain if the origins of COVID-19 will ever be determined, but the current top theories split about evenly between a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and a natural evolution from bats to animals to humans at a Wuhan “wet market.”