News
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.
FEATURED STORIES
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.
FROM OUR EDITORS
Read our takes on the biggest stories happening in the industry.
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.
THE LATEST
The FDA plans to review changes to Novavax’s manufacturing process before it authorizes its vaccine.
Seelos Therapeutics announced in vitro data Thursday supporting its gene therapy, SLS-004. SLS-004 is intended for the treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
COVID-19 is turning out to be a particularly tenacious disease. And researchers are starting to understand why. Also, a new study found that COVID-19 deaths were higher in Republican-voting counties.
Bluebird bio faces a two-day crucible as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Cell, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee will give two lentiviral vector gene therapies a thumbs up or down.
The Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund II will invest mainly in later-stage biopharmaceutical firms in Europe, focusing on marketing treatments for diseases with high unmet needs.
Takeda announced results from its Phase III clinical trial on TAK-003, its dengue fever vaccine candidate, at the Northern European Conference of Travel Medicine.
Degron Therapeutics, based in Shanghai, announced Thursday that it has secured $22 million in Series A financing for its unique molecular glue-based targeted protein degradation platform GlueXplorer.
Precision BioSciences’ clinical program exploring allogeneic CAR T therapy may well produce a market pioneer after initial data showed its ability to deliver a 100% overall response rate.
Mineralys Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a best-in-class, novel therapy for high blood pressure, closed a $118 million Series B investment round.
The new space will enable Astellas to establish a global supply chain of gene therapies as well as widen the scope of the therapeutic products it creates.