Sanofi

Jul 19, 2021

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the beta cells of the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. The hormone is responsible for the maintenance of normal blood glucose levels by facilitating cellular glucose uptake and regulating carbohydrate, protein, and lipid metabolism. Inappropriate functioning of insulin due to d...

Apr 27, 2021

Ocugen-Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Shows Efficacy Against B.1.617 Variant With the COVID-19 cases exponentially increasing, there is a worrisome climate all over the world. Physicians, doctors, researchers, the whole healthcare and pharmaceutical industry are at their toes fighting the second wave of the coronaviru...

Apr 13, 2021

Taysha takes charge of a Rare Disease Gene Therapy for $5.5 M  Taysha Gene Therapies announced the acquisition of exclusive global rights to TSHA-120 from a leading patient advocacy group for an upfront payment of USD 5.5 million.  TSHA-120 is an intrathecally dosed AAV9 gene therapy designed to tre...

Mar 18, 2021

Global Blood Therapeutics strikes a deal with Sanofi for sickle cell disease programs As Global Blood Therapeutics works to bring its sickle cell disease drug, Oxbryta, to younger patients, the company is reinforcing its pipeline with a pair of early-stage programs from Sanofi. In exchange for the global righ...

Nov 19, 2020

Pfizer succeeds COVID-19 vaccine safety milestone Pfizer prepares to file its COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization (EUA) after succeeding a key safety breakthrough. Pfizer now has the median two-month follow-up data needed for securing EUA from the FDA, moving a step closer for bringing its vaccine t...

Nov 04, 2020

Bristol Myers' Experimental Psoriasis drug succeeds in late-stage study defeats rival Amgen's Otezla Bristol Myers' experimental psoriasis drug, deucravacitinib has outmarched Amgen's Otezla (apremilast) in the POETYK PSO-1 Phase III clinical trial in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Deucravaci...

Aug 18, 2020

New strategy, new outlook: Sanofi takes another step, gains full control over the Principia’s MS treatment  Sanofi has inked a definitive agreement with Principia Biopharma to acquire the company, all of its outstanding shares, and its BTK inhibitors in a deal worth USD 3.68 Billion. The deal is expected t...

Jul 09, 2020

Sanofi licenses NK cells of Kiadis to boost the efficacy  Sanofi has licensed the natural killer (NK) cells from Kiadis Pharma for use in combination with its multiple myeloma drug Sarclisa. The deal worth of USD 986 million gives the global rights to Sanofi for therapies that could lessen an efficacy-limit...

Jun 04, 2020

Gene-edited T cells for diabetes treatment The Scientists at the Seattle Children's Research Institute and the Benaroya Research Institute have got a promising finding that will turn off the destructive autoimmune response in Type 1 diabetes. This comprises editing the genes of patients' T cells. The team pre...

May 08, 2020

The current Beta-thalassemia market is experiencing the emergence of gene therapies as a one-time cure for the patients. Beta thalassemia is relatively a common heterogeneous autosomal recessive hereditary blood disorder. It is a common form of hemoglobinopathy characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis leadi...