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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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BrainVectis will begin assessing a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease in France after receiving clearance from health authorities there to conduct a Phase I/II study.
A day after Pfizer and partner BioNTech submitted an EUA request to the FDA for their booster shot targeting Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, the regulator appears close to approving it.
Alcon announced it is buying out Aerie Pharmaceuticals for about $770 million to gain access to the ophthalmic pharma firm’s open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension treatments.
Shares of Foghorn are tumbling after the FDA placed a full clinical hold on a Phase I dose escalation study that had already been subject to a partial hold following a patient death.
A combination of Novo Nordisk’s CagriSema injection for overweight people with type II diabetes resulted in a 15.6% body weight reduction compared to taking the drugs individually.
Elon Musk has reportedly gotten in touch with Synchron, a company developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) device, to explore potential investment opportunities, according to a report by Reuters.
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Tessa Therapeutics has tapped former Takeda executive Thomas Willemsen as the man to take its CAR-T portfolio forward.
In a letter to shareholders, RegeneRx provided a pipeline update for investors Monday, outlining plans to potentially move forward with a new asset in light of development delays.
Pfizer is to report initial data from a randomized trial of the second course of therapy of paxlovid in COVID-19 rebound patients by Sept. 2023.