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A single 1-mg/kg dose of Eli Lilly’s base editor can lower LDL cholesterol levels by 62% in patients with a heritable form of hypercholesterolemia. The pharma acquired the asset last year in the $1.3 billion Verve Therapeutics buy.
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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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It is also a milestone for the immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) community, as TARPEYO becomes the first and only FDA-approved treatment to reduce proteinuria in this condition.
As 2021 moves closer to its end, biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe continue to strengthen their leadership teams and boards with these Movers & Shakers.
The agreement between the two companies includes a lead, potential first-in-class preclinical candidate, and research collaboration to jointly develop the additional novel candidates.
A recent study estimates that in the U.S. alone the vaccines saved 1.1 million lives and prevented 10.3 million hospitalizations. For that and more COVID-19 news, continue reading.
Arc begins its mission with $650 million in donations from donors. This funding will sustain the scientists and their researchers over renewable eight-year terms.
Biogen and Eisai released an update on the Phase IV post-marketing confirmatory study and plan to submit the final protocol to the FDA in March 2022 and launch patient screening in May 2022.
As the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus sweeps much of the globe, scientists are digging into why this particular mutation is spreading even more rapidly than its predecessors.
Nodexus and Aramis Biosciences will use their funds to expand their company’s pipeline and build their commercialization capabilities.
Researchers have published a study describing how chemotherapy and a drug used to treat cardiac failure is able to regress tumor growth of patients with triple negative breast cancer.
Biopharmaceutical companies across the world are fighting an increasingly important battle against COVID-19: the struggle to treat the disease.