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New draft guidance from the FDA on multiple myeloma endpoints reflects the new technology available to assess disease and how patient journeys have changed with better treatments.
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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
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Phacilitate’s annual event dawns as cell and gene therapies reach a new tipping point: the science has hit new heights just as regulatory and government policies spark momentum and frustration.
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Another Flagship-founded company is shutting down its operations, according to an SEC filing. Axcella Health, which was focused on the development of a long COVID therapeutic, is no more.
Plexxikon, which was acquired by Daiichi Sankyo, and Novartis have agreed to settle a patent case involving the cancer drug Tafinlar and its sale in the U.S.
As Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exa-cel and Verve Therapeutics’ VERVE-101 move forward, questions remain about possible drawbacks of such therapies.
The private placement from existing and new investors extends the company’s cash runway into the second half of 2026 and will help take two candidates for inflammatory bowel disease into the clinic in 2024.
For the second time in as many days, Merck has reported a Phase III failure for its blockbuster PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda, this time as a first-line treatment with Eisai’s Lenvima for cancer in the uterus lining.
Results from a Phase III trial showed the combination improves progression-free survival compared to chemotherapy when used as a first-line treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer.
A combination of Merck’s experimental anti-TIGIT antibody vibostolimab and anti-PD-1 drug Keytruda failed to hit its endpoints in a mid-stage non-small cell lung cancer study.
While almost half of multiple myeloma patients on linvoseltamab achieved a complete response or better, all experienced adverse events and 14 patients died due to treatment-emergent AEs.
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