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Vera Therapeutics’ atacicept, to be marketed as Trutakna, will go up against Novartis, Otsuka and possibly Vertex in the kidney disease primary IgA nephropathy after receiving an accelerated FDA approval.
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Molecular glue degraders are gaining traction in the clinic as well as funding from Big Pharma, with their potential to treat previously “undruggable” cancers and immunological diseases. Here are five clinical programs worth keeping an eye on.
Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
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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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Regulatory authorities worldwide are tightening their monitoring mechanisms and launching their own investigations after reports of secondary malignancies potentially linked to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies.
Taiwanese contract development and manufacturing organization Bora will purchase Minnesota-based Upsher-Smith Laboratories, expanding operations into the U.S. for the first time.
The FDA’s Complete Response Letter identified problems with the drug candidate’s chemistry, manufacturing and controls, parent company Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories announced Thursday.
The Swiss pharma’s Phase III trial of ligelizumab in patients with peanut allergies has been terminated, according to a ClinicalTrials.gov update on Tuesday.
The San Diego-based startup, specializing in allogeneic engineered Treg and CAR-Treg cell therapies, plans to be in Phase I clinical trials in multiple indications in 2024.
The sweeping changes are meant to “reduce hierarchies” and “accelerate decision-making” as Bayer weathers several business crises and continues to suffer from the fallout of its disastrous Monsanto acquisition.
In a changing landscape, top companies are increasingly embracing remote work.
When combined with Tecentriq and chemotherapy, tiroagolumab increased median survival to 15.7 months compared to 11.1 months for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma on chemo alone.
The team comes together to discuss the dominant themes of what was an incredibly busy week of events in San Francisco during JPM 2024.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sided with Daiichi over Seagen in a years-long patent saga concerning a key linker technology used in its blockbuster Enhertu antibody-drug conjugate for cancer.