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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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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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Shares of AnaptysBio are down more than 16% after imsidolimab failed to meet the endpoint in a Phase II trial assessing its efficacy in hidradenitis suppurativa.
Provention Bio secured a $125 million loan from Hercules Capital that will support operations and the potential launch of the company’s type 1 diabetes treatment, teplizumab.
Novo Nordisk has entered into an agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics for $1.1 billion. Forma’s lead development candidate, etavopivat, is being developed for sickle cell disease.
On Wednesday, the FDA authorized new Omicron-specific booster shots for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines despite a lack of human data.
A High Court judge in London granted AstraZeneca an injunction, temporarily blocking a former executive from joining rival pharma GSK.
Fiona H. Marshall has been tapped as Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research president after Jay Bradner’s exit, while Tim Demuth will succeed Malte Peters for MorphoSys.
The problem of intellectual property theft is greater than most biopharma executives realize, but the real issue is that companies are protecting only a fraction of their IP.
Sanofi announced FDA approval of Xenpozyme for adult and pediatric patients with the rare genetic disease acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, often referred to as Niemann-Pick disease.
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is potentially linked to the origins of COVID-19, reported the discovery of a novel DNA virus in animals in the journal Virologica Sinica.
Day One Biopharmaceuticals aims to provide a business solution to a moral problem: the inequity in pediatric oncology drug development.