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The acquisition announced Monday will give Crown access to Revance’s Daxxify, a competitor to AbbVie’s Botox, which is indicated for frown lines and for cervical dystonia.
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As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.
This year has seen the approval of several first-in-class therapies for HAE, but in a fragmented space, experts question whether they will be enough to net their developers a significant share of the entrenched market.
The record-setting government shutdown was just the latest blow to the U.S. biopharma industry. When science funding becomes a casualty of political gridlock, we lose valuable talent, erode public trust and jeopardize our position as a global leader in innovation.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AMVUTTRA™, an RNAi therapeutic administered via subcutaneous injection once every three months for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults.
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After VX-548 demonstrated significant pain relief in surgical and non-surgical settings, Vertex Pharmaceuticals is preparing to file a New Drug Application for the non-opioid candidate by mid-2024.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ initial proposed drug price cuts, due to pharma companies by Thursday under the Inflation Reduction Act, could range from 25% to 60%, analysts told Reuters.
The persistent shortage of genuine glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist products has led to an increase in fake versions, the World Health Organization warned on Monday.
On the heels of ArriVent and CG Oncology’s upsized IPOs last week, Alto Neuroscience and Fractyl Health on Monday announced their respective plans to go public.
Bristol Myers Squibb’s PD-1 inhibitor was unable to outperform the placebo arm in improving disease-free survival in renal cell carcinoma patients at high risk of relapse after surgery.
The clinical development pipeline for vaccines is broad but shallow with a large proportion of programs dedicated to COVID-19, according to a new report by industry group Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
The CEOs of J&J and Merck have finally committed to testifying before the Senate health committee regarding the high prices of drugs in the U.S. The hearing is set for Feb. 8.
The blockbuster immunotherapy secured separate late-stage victories as an adjuvant-setting treatment in renal cell carcinoma and muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma.
The FDA’s myriad acronyms—and the differences between them—can be perplexing. BioSpace looks at the unique advantages of certain regulatory classifications for drug developers.
While the company expects sales growth to be flat this year, Lonza’s shares jumped around 14% Friday morning after reporting full-year 2023 sales of $7.75 billion, which was 3% above the consensus.