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Lilly met analysts’ sky-high expectations with 28.3% weight loss over 80 weeks for the triple hormone receptor agonist retatrutide in a highly anticipated readout on Thursday.
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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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In the latest HEALEY trial readout, Clene’s CNM-Au8 significantly reduced plasma neurofilament light chain levels in ALS patients, which could be a strong and reliable signal of its clinical benefit.
In a unanimous 21-0 vote, an FDA advisory committee recommended an updated monovalent formulation of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the now-dominant XBB.1.5 subvariant.
After an FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended Leqembi’s full approval, questions linger around amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and a potentially cumbersome patient registry.
The FDA has four target action dates this week, including ones for Argenx’s subcutaneous efgartigimod in generalized myasthenia gravis and Sarepta’s gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The pharma company alleges that BeiGene’s Brukinsa patent, issued on Tuesday, infringes on its patent for Imbruvica to treat patients with slow-growing blood cancer.
The Japanese biopharma is diving deeper into targeted protein degradation, paying $35 million upfront for access to Cullgen’s uSMITE platform.
Eli Lilly has secured the rights to Verve Therapeutics’ gene editing approach, a “one-and-done” method that the companies hope will lower the cardiovascular risk factor lipoprotein(a).
Following cases of serious bleeding in patients, five of which were fatal, the regulator has put Mersana’s investigational antibody-drug conjugate UpRi on partial clinical hold in two ovarian cancer trials.
The company won a patent ruling from a New Jersey court, which extends protections from generic competition for its muscle relaxant reversal drug Bridion.
In a subpoena filed Monday, the state of Texas asked Pfizer to turn over all communications with Meta regarding the tech company’s advertising practices.