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Novartis, Eli Lilly and more put on their deal-making caps, Bristol Myers Squibb targets $2 billion in savings through 2027, sales continue to soar for Lilly and Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1s and Regeneron sues Sanofi over an alleged failure to provide adequate information about Dupixent sales.
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At one point in merger negotiations with Novartis, Avidity CEO Sarah Boyce and her team walked, cutting off access to a data room and moving on to a capital raise.
Previous mega blockbusters took years to reach their peak sales. Lilly’s tirzepatide franchise is on course to exceed them just a few years in.
Experts suggest the FDA’s Advanced Manufacturing Technologies designation could be a lifeline for improving production processes for approved cell and gene therapies.
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Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced meaningful progress toward its global inclusion & diversity goals and health equity commitments, meeting and exceeding some goals ahead of schedule.
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With Thursday’s positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the matter now heads to the European Commission which will have the final say on whether Wegovy’s label will be updated.
While unlikely to pass this year, given the Democrats’ control over the White House and Senate, the proposed legislation might be a harbinger of the Republicans’ agenda next year for the Inflation Reduction Act should they win the November elections.
An unusual placebo effect in Aligos Therapeutics’ Phase IIa trial is driving shareholder skepticism for its metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis candidate, according to Jefferies analyst Michael Yee.
The drop in interest rate is slightly bigger than anticipated and good news for the biotech industry, but little will change in the near term.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals on Thursday announced that the regulator declined to approve its application, a decision the company says was delayed by more than 185 days and failed to satisfy the requirements of the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act.
With the FDA’s approval, Fasenra will compete with GSK’s Nucala, which in December 2017 became the first biologic approved for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
If approved, the co-administration of Arexvy and Shingrix could provide a more convenient vaccination regimen for patients and potentially bolster GSK’s faltering sales for both vaccines.
4D Molecular Therapeutics reported its experimental gene therapy demonstrated a nearly 90% reduction in the need for annualized standard-of-care injections in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.
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