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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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AstraZeneca presented data showing Imfinzi and Tagrisso boosted survival chances for patients in different forms of lung cancer at ESMO on Monday.
President Joe Biden tapped Ginkgo Bioworks veteran Renee Wegrzyn to helm the recently-established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
It was a busy weekend at ESMO 2022 with Merck, Astellas, Seagen, Regeneron, AstraZeneca and GRAIL all presenting data from their various cancer programs.
Pretzel Therapeutics launched Monday with $72.5 million in Series A financing to develop novel, mitochondria-based therapies to treat rare genetic disorders and diseases of aging.
Regeneron’s oncology strategy is centered around improving checkpoint inhibitor treatments with combination therapies, according to a pipeline overview presented Monday morning.
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BMS announced that the FDA approved Sotyktu for adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, marking this indication’s first oral treatment innovation in nearly a decade.
The week has seen a series of significant updates from BioVie, Regeneron, Relay Therapeutics, Oxford University, Vistagen and Palatin.
The FDA is heading into fall with a few Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) dates. Here’s a look at this week’s upcoming action.
Now that most people in North America and Europe are vaccinated and the COVID-19 pandemic is diminishing, Moderna is looking for its second act.
An AstraZeneca/Merck combination showed mostly positive ovarian cancer data, Adaptimmune posted a strong ORR in solid tumors and BioNTech revealed data from a CAR-T cell therapy.