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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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Following a year-long legal battle, Illumina is dropping the intellectual property allegations against Guardant. The companies have also entered into a new long-term purchase and supply commitment.
The biopharma company reported sales of $2.24 billion in the second quarter for the cystic fibrosis treatment, beating analysts’ estimate, after it won FDA approval in children ages two to five in April.
Following reports of destroyed and discarded data, the U.S. regulator issued a warning letter to India’s Intas Pharmaceuticals regarding violations of current good manufacturing practice.
The settlement agreement between the companies follows three patent-infringement lawsuits filed by Bristol-Myers Squibb over the blockbuster cancer immunotherapies.
In its second-quarter earnings reported Tuesday, Pfizer announced total revenues declined 54% to $12.7 billion, primarily due to a plummet in Paxlovid and Comirnaty sales.
Following difficult recent months for EQRx, the biotech is being bought by Revolution Medicines in an all-stock transaction that secures $1 billion in additional capital for the oncology company.
Amid a re-energized Alzheimer’s disease space, Quest Diagnostics offers what the company contends is the first direct-to-consumer blood-based biomarker test to assess disease risk.
The FDA has approved Jemperli as an add-on to chemotherapy for patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer that is mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability-high.
The Federal Trade Commission seeks to codify its heavier-handed approach, already displayed by its actions regarding Amgen’s acquisition of Horizon, among other deals.
Ulotaront failed to meet primary endpoints in two studies. The companies said high COVID-19 placebo effect “may have masked molecule’s therapeutic effect” and plan to discuss next steps with the FDA.