82 more patient deaths tied to Philips CPAP recall

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Feb 13, 2023

Big Pharma divided? Pfizer, AZ, Lilly and more support Sanofi in high-profile Amgen patent fight


Reed relinquishes R&D reins at Sanofi to pursue new opportunity, sparking race to find successor


Philips CPAP recall spurs another 82 reports of patient deaths, pushing total to 346


Genentech plugs $450M into next-gen biologics plant in California, where it'll hire 150


3 years after rejecting $1B buyout, Sorrento files for bankruptcy amid legal battles


Medtronic fined $106M in trial over TAVR device patent infringement

 

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Big Pharma divided? Pfizer, AZ, Lilly and more support Sanofi in high-profile Amgen patent fight

In the patent feud over rival PCSK9 inhibitors Praluent and Repatha, Amgen isn’t the only pharma with friends in high places.
 

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Reed relinquishes R&D reins at Sanofi to pursue new opportunity, sparking race to find successor

John Reed is leaving Sanofi. Almost five years after being named Sanofi’s head of global R&D, the former Roche executive is departing to “pursue a new opportunity”—leaving the French drugmaker with an interim leader while it races to find a full-time replacement.

Philips CPAP recall spurs another 82 reports of patient deaths, pushing total to 346

Even as Philips nears the end of the repair-and-replace program for its recall of 5.5 million respiratory devices, complaints about the machines are still rolling in.

Genentech plugs $450M into next-gen biologics plant in California, where it'll hire 150

Speed is a consistent theme in Genentech’s blueprint for a new biologics plant at its campus in Oceanside, California. The Roche subsidiary is pitching the site as “one of the most modern commercial-scale biotech manufacturing facilities in the world.”

3 years after rejecting $1B buyout, Sorrento files for bankruptcy amid legal battles

Sorrento Therapeutics is filing for bankruptcy amid ongoing litigation against billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and his company NantCell.

Medtronic fined $106M in trial over TAVR device patent infringement

Medtronic was found guilty this week of infringing on a patent concerning transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems that was awarded to Colibri Heart Valve in 2014.

Leo Pharma's topical JAK drug posts phase 3 win in chronic hand eczema

Leo Pharma's JAK cream is on a mission to become the second approved JAK inhibitor cream after Incyte's Opzelura. After proving eczema relief in a phase 3 trial, the next step is a long-term trial.

Insulet bulks up automated insulin delivery tech with $25M purchase of Bigfoot patents

In its efforts to automate as much of the diabetes management process as possible, Insulet has tracked down Bigfoot—Bigfoot Biomedical, that is.

Fierce Biotech Layoff Tracker 2023: Frequency, Eliem both eliminate 55% of staff

We had hoped that our Layoff Tracker would stay retired for a while, but 2023 is starting to look a lot like our old friend 2022 when it comes to layoffs in biotech.
 
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