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A trifecta of newly inked tech partnerships—from Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb and Incyte—exemplify the increasingly central role that AI is playing in drug development.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Follow news from the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2023 annual meeting—BioSpace will be tracking key updates here throughout the conference.
The Swiss pharma’s CDK4/6 inhibitor reduced risk for recurrence by 25% when added to the standard-of-care endocrine therapy, inviting comparisons to Lilly’s Verzenio.
The company’s Humira biosimilar Yusimry will launch in July with a $995 list price. Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy will sell it at a list price of $569.27 plus fees.
The company’s aztreonam-avibactam matched the cure rate of a meropenem-based regimen in patients with drug-resistant infections.
The recent approval of Biogen’s Qalsody in SOD1–ALS highlighted the potential of ASOs in CNS diseases, while recent failures make it clear there is still work to be done.
ADCs from BioNTech, Daiichi Sankyo and Merck are the subject of high-profile abstracts featured at the oncology meeting, along with Merck’s late-breaking Phase III non-small cell lung cancer data.
Drugs that act on the CFTR protein only work in patients who produce the protein in the first place. That leaves 6% of patients hanging.
The FDA has three high-profile events this week, including one target action date and two advisory committee meetings—one to discuss potential traditional approval for Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi.
Roger Perlmutter’s company announced the addition Thursday of myriad early- to mid-stage assets in the cancer and neurodegenerative disease spaces.
The company added an indication to Lynparza’s label for the treatment of adults with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, while cutting an antibody for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.