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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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.
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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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Genmab’s Phase II expansion cohort of the EPCORE NHL-1 clinical trial revealed that its investigational bispecific antibody epcoritamab induced a durable response in patients with LBCL.
CRISPR Therapeutics shared positive initial data from its Phase I COBALT-LYM trial of CTX130 for cancer which demonstrated safety and efficacy when used to target CD70.
Horizon Therapeutics’ Bill Rees spoke to BioSpace about the scientific discovery and collaboration potential of its new Rockville, Maryland site, which is expected to open in 2024.
SPACs – special purpose acquisition companies – have lost their luster and may never regain it. BioSpace spoke with Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Gregory D. Grove.
For the second straight day, the FDA’s Cell, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee voted unanimously to approve a bluebird lentiviral vector (LVV) gene therapy.
Cogent Biosciences shared its Phase II APEX clinical trial on bezuclastinib for patients with AdvSM and showed promise in treating the rare blood disorder.
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The House of Representatives voted on a bill that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to ensure biopharma companies run large follow-up trials to confirm accelerated approvals.
AbbVie announced Friday that its investigational drug navitoclax, when used together with ruxolitinib, eases symptoms in myelofibrosis patients who had not yet been treated with a JAK inhibitor.
Location is everything when it comes to compensation in the life sciences. We’ve compiled data from BioSpace’s 2023 Life Sciences Salary Report to help you choose the best place to live and work.
The European Hematology Association’s 2022 Hybrid Congress is in full swing in Vienna, Austria and will feature the newest and most promising developments in blood cancer research.