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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Boehringer and BiomX intend to use the discovery platform to identify biomarkers for a pathogenic bacterium thought to be associated with IBD.
Pearl Huang, Ph.D, has been appointed the CEO of U.K.-based Dunad Therapeutics, a Novartis-backed biopharmaceutical startup.
Kezar Life Sciences stock rose 92% after it announced positive topline results from its Phase II clinical trial investigating the use of zetomipzomib for the treatment of Lupus Nephritis (LN).
The findings, presented during a poster session at the EASL 2022 International Liver Congress, revealed that of the 407 D-LIVR participants, nearly 30% developed liver cirrhosis.
Pfizer and Roivant unveiled Priovant Therapeutics to develop and market new therapies for a wide range of autoimmune diseases with high mortality and morbidity rates.
Astellas Pharma and Sutro Biopharma inked a global collaboration and licensing deal to work to discover and develop novel immunostimulatory antibody-drug conjugates.
Arzeda, Cyrus Biotechnology and Outpace Bio, are teaming up to use machine learning and optimize protein folding and design efforts.
Spero Therapeutics received a Complete Response Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its complicated urinary tract infection therapy, tebipenem HBr oral tablets.
Danish researchers published a study suggesting that COVID-19 increases the risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
MindMed, Scripps Research, Cingulate Therapeutics and the University of Pennsylvania discuss innovative treatments on the horizon for the treatment of anxiety disorder.