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Active Biotech, based in Lund, Sweden, announced that its laquinimod failed to meet its primary endpoint in its Phase II clinical trial for Huntington’s disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved New York-based Progenics Pharmaceuticals’ New Drug Application (NDA) for Azedra for adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with iobenguane scan positive, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma who require systemic anticancer therapy. It is the first and only therapy approved for these indications.
Astex Pharmaceuticals, a member of the Otsuka group of companies, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical, indicated their guadecitabine (SGI-110) missed its co-primary endpoints in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
BioLineRx, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Merck & Co, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, announced they are expanding their immuno-oncology collaboration.
Liquidia Technologiesnlaunched a successful initial public offering on July 25, raising $50 million. Neal Fowler, the company’s chief executive officer, and Kevin Gordon, Liquidia’s president and chief financial officer, took time out to talk with BioSpace about the company and where it’s headed.
Although the overall stock market has been a bit jittery as the result of a trade war, biotech stocks have been surprisingly steady—at least in comparison to their usual volatility.
The FDA notified Sarepta Therapeutics that its Phase I/IIa Micro-Dystrophin Gene Therapy Trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been placed on a clinical hold because of contamination of its therapeutic.
Many analysts and investors were holding their breaths, waiting to see what Biogen would say at yesterday’s second-quarter financial report. The financials weren’t the focus, however, but what the Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech had to say about its pipeline, especially for Alzheimer’s disease, was.
Shares of Nabriva Therapeutics are rising this morning after the company announced it acquired privately-held Zavante Therapeutics.
Boston-based resTORbio, which was spun out of Novartis in April 2017, announced positive topline results from its Phase IIb clinical trial of RTB101 in patients with respiratory tract infections (RTIs).
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