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Last week, the FDA made its one pivotal trial policy official, sparking myriad questions from industry leaders, including around specific evidence required for the single study and why it hasn’t been implemented across all therapeutic areas before now.
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Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
LB Pharma needed $350 million to advance a promising schizophrenia candidate at a time when the biotech markets were locked up tight. Fortunately, it wasn’t CEO Heather Turner’s first rodeo.
Rare disease drug developers struggle to survive in a biopharma investment market that prioritizes large patient populations. Initiatives like the Orphan Therapeutics Accelerator are attempting to solve what CEO Craig Martin says is not a science problem, but a math problem.
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Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
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After showing some unfavorable results for its data, AC Immune on Monday announced it will be getting back its Alzheimer’s disease candidates from Roche’s Genentech.
Johnson & Johnson exceeded fourth-quarter earnings estimates, reporting nearly $21.4 billion in revenue, as its pharma business faces a patent cliff with Stelara competition entering the market.
The French drugmaker is buying California-based biotech Inhibrx to gain access to its clinical-stage drug candidate for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, as it tries winning over investors with potential blockbusters.
Although the FDA did not outright say there is a causal secondary malignancy relationship, it asked BMS, Gilead, J&J and Novartis to add warnings to the labels of six CAR-T therapies noting the potential risks.
Novartis spin-off Sandoz will make an upfront cash payment for the entire Cimerli ophthalmology franchise, including inventories, software and sales and reimbursement teams.
As with any new year, 2024 presents new possibilities; though new and existing challenges are also poised to shape its trajectory. BioSpace reflects on the recent JP Morgan Healthcare Conference and future outlook with key opinion leaders who share their thoughts on the economic climate.
Amid a hot antibody-drug conjugate market in oncology, Gilead Sciences announced Monday that its ADC Trodelvy did not reach a primary endpoint in a non-small cell lung cancer trial.
With initial public offering activity continuing to gain momentum in early 2024, ArriVent Biopharma in a Monday SEC filing laid out the company’s plans to go public.
The immunotherapy combination reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 79% versus chemotherapy in certain metastatic colorectal cancer patients, according to Bristol Myers Squibb.
Johnson & Johnson’s small molecule FGFR kinase inhibitor is now indicated for patients with susceptible FGFR3 mutations who progressed after at least one line of systemic therapy.