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Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts said the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program did not receive congressional backing. The FDA has also not yet made disclosures for eight senior reviewers, according to Auchincloss.
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Analysts parsed the limited data available for Pfizer’s obesity candidate on the pharma’s fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday, looking for any nugget of additional context.
After advancing in lockstep through the pandemic, the fortunes of the biotechs have diverged as their use of COVID-19 windfalls has taken shape.
After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
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While Astellas did not say why it withdrew its suit, it was the only company to file a legal complaint that wasn’t on the initial IRA drug price negotiations list and may not have had any grounds to sue.
Soon after cancelling its contract with I-Mab, AbbVie has now also turned its back on a partnership with Berkeley-based Caribou Biosciences that was focused on advancing allogeneic CAR-T therapeutics.
Following promising results in major depressive disorder, Alto Neuroscience on Tuesday reported positive data for its investigational drug ALTO-100 in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Despite filing respective lawsuits challenging the program, AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb have decided to participate in the first round of price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Italian pharma company is acquiring what was once one of the hottest stocks in the biotech sector, just months after the FDA rejected Intercept’s non-alcoholic steatohepatitis candidate.
Shares were up over 60% in premarket trading on news that the company’s anti-FcRn antibody exhibited dose-dependent reductions in IgG levels, drivers of inflammation in many autoimmune diseases.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need for local production of vaccines. Now, German pharma company BioNTech has said it will start manufacturing vaccines in Africa.
The company’s olezarsen cleared a late-stage study, eliciting a sharp reduction in triglyceride levels in patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome. Ionis plans to submit a New Drug Application to the FDA.