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Oct 11, 2022
Merck’s Sotatercept Trial Result; PARP Rivals Closing in on AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza; FDA Clears GSK’s Boostrix for Pertussis; Fast Track Designation to Nanoscope Therapeutics’s MCO-010; FDA Awards Fast Track Designation to Eftilagimod Alpha Plus Pembrolizumab; Solid Biosciences to Acquire AavantiBio
Merck’s Sotatercept Clears Phase III Trial Merck’s USD 11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron last year was based on the promise of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate sotatercept, which has recently met the mark in a much-anticipated phase III trial. The STELLAR trial found that adding the activin re...
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Sep 27, 2022
Daiichi Sankyo’s Ezharmia; Pfizer & Sangamo Hemophilia A Gene Therapy Trial; Approval for Fennec’s Pedmark; FDA Approves UBE and Santen’s OMLONTI; EC Approves AstraZeneca’s Tezspire; FDA Approves Selpercatinib; FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Eli Lilly’s Retevmo; GSK & Spero Announce Exclusive License Agreement
Daiichi Sankyo Receives the First Approval for its Blood Cancer Drug Ezharmia Daiichi Sankyo has received the first global approval for Ezharmia, a first-in-class dual EZH1 and EZH2 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). The Japanese Ministry of ...
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Sep 20, 2022
AstraZeneca’s Danicopan Trial; CHMP Recommends Sanofi/AstraZeneca’s nirsevimab; Akero’s NASH Drug Trial; FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status to SY-5609; BMS’s Opdivo Trial Results; Pfizer to File for FDA Approval for Meningitis Vaccine; EMA Orphan Drug Designation to CAN-2409; FDA Starts Priority Review of Chiesi ‘s velmanase alfa
AstraZeneca’s Danicopan Shows Positive Results in Phase III Trial Danicopan, an oral Factor D inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca, was expected to fail a phase II trial in rare kidney disease in 2020, but a new readout could revive the drug. Danicopan (ALXN2040) has demonstrated efficacy as an adjunct treatment f...
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Sep 13, 2022
Amgen Announced the Result of its CodeBreak-200 Trial; FDA Clears Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Deucravacitinib; BioNTech’s Amplified CAR-T Therapy; TIL Therapy Improves on Yervoy in Melanoma; GSK’s Daprodustat will have to face FDA Advisory Committee; Breakthrough Therapy Status to Pfizer’s Group B Strep Vaccine; EU Approves Gilead’ Tecartus; Gilead’ Trodelvy Results in TROPiCs-02 Trial
Amgen Reveals the Top-line Result of its CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in Lung Cancer The top-line result of Amgen's CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in lung cancer was presented in abstract form at ESMO two weeks ago, showing a 34% improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared to chemotherapy. The fu...
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Sep 06, 2022
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer; FDA Clears Boehringer’s Spesolimab; Novo Nordisk to Acquire Forma Therapeutics; Sanofi’s Xenpozyme Approved for ASMD; Another FDA Approval to Azurity’s Konvomep; Amgen’s Lumakras Trial Results; FDA Grants Priority Review to Sanofi & Sobi’s efanesoctocog alfa; Neurocrine Bio to Takeover UK Biotech Diurnal
FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer Imfinzi, a checkpoint inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca, has been approved by the FDA as the first immunotherapy for biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare and aggressive form of cancer with few treatment options. Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved by ...
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Aug 30, 2022
Aktis’s Novel Targeted Alpha Radiopharmaceuticals; Koye Partners with Sonde Health; Novartis to Spin Off Sandoz Business; Alcon to Buy Aerie Pharma; Fast Track Designation to Merck’s MK-2060; FDA Approves Ibrutinib for Chronic GvHD; French Authorities Clears BrainVectis’s Clinical Trial; Takeda’s Dengue Vaccine TAK-003 Gets Approval in Indonesia
Aktis Oncology Raises USD 84 Million To Advance Novel Targeted Alpha Radiopharmaceuticals Aktis Oncology has raised an additional USD 84 million in its Series A round, adding to the USD 72 million raised last year to help bring its radiopharmaceuticals to market. The extension to the first round included Merck's...
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Aug 16, 2022
Novartis’ Canakinumab for NSCLC; Novartis’s Zolgensma Updates; Trodelvy Prospects in New Breast Cancer Use; Novartis Secures European Approval For Pluvicto; Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Abecma Phase III Trials; Trastuzumab Approved for Deruxtecan for HER2-Mutant NSCLC
Novartis’ Canakinumab Fails in Phase III Trials for NSCLC Canakinumab's prospects as an anticancer therapy were already dwindling when a third phase III trial in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) failed to reach its objectives. The most recent setback came from the CANOPY-A study, which included patients with N...
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Aug 10, 2021
Merck’s Keytruda Approval; Abbvie’s Venetoclax; Aprea’s Eprenetapopt; CRL to Incyte’s Retifanlimab; Keytruda/Lenvima for Endometrial Cancer
FDA Approves Keytruda in Both Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Setting in High-Risk Early-Stage TNBC In July 2021, the US FDA approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in combination with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment and then continued as a single agent as...
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Jul 15, 2021
Hepion aces mid-stage study; Bicycle Therapeutics-Ionis collaboration; Nimbus raises $105M; Regeneron to support ISA Pharma
Hepion Pharma's NASH drug is set for Phase 2b after clearing the safety bar Hepion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic drugs for the liver disease treatment arising from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), declaring positive topline results from...
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Jul 08, 2021
Unity’s advanced vascular eye disease trial; Rallybio raises $100 M; Sanofi bets over $1B for Eureka’s candidate; Lilly invests in MiNA;
UNITY Biotechnology declares positive data from phase 1 clinical trial of UBX1325 in Advanced Vascular Eye Disease patients UNITY Biotechnology, Inc., a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to decrease, impede, or reverse diseases of aging, declared positive data from its Phase 1 safety study of U...
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