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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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Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent (dupilumab) met its primary and all secondary endpoints in the Phase III BOREAS trial, significantly reducing severe exacerbations in COPD.
The FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee voted 9-0 that tofersen’s effect on neurofilament light chain (NfL) could be a reasonable predictor of clinical benefit.
Data from the Phase IIb ENLIVEN trial showed 89bio’s pegozafermin met its primary histology endpoint in NASH patients, giving the company an edge in the competitive space.
Yescarta is the first treatment in nearly 30 years to improve overall survival in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma R/R LBCL, according to Gilead’s Kite Pharma.
Mayank Mamtani, managing director and group head of healthcare research at B. Riley Securities, told BioSpace he believes Altimmune’s pemvidutide still shows promise despite safety concerns.
Following recent meetings with the FDA and European Medicines Agency, Mereo Biopharma is designing a Phase III study of alvelestat to treat alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency-associated lung disease.
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Peter Marks described the steps the agency is taking to advance the development of gene therapies for rare disorders. This could spell good news in the near future for Sarepta Therapeutics.
BioNTech inked an exclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement with OncoC4 to develop and commercialize its investigational anti-CTLA-4 antibody ONC-392 for solid tumors.
Takeda will advance its experimental drug for plaque psoriasis, TAK-279, to Phase III later this year after the TYK2 inhibitor met its primary and secondary endpoints in a Phase IIb study.