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Today's Big NewsFeb 17, 2023 |
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| By Eric Sagonowsky Gilead on Friday said Shaw will be leaving as Kite Pharma's CEO at the end of March. The company didn't give a reason for her departure, but the drugmaker said she'll work closely with Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day on the transition in the coming weeks. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor Pfizer and Valneva’s phase 3 Lyme disease vaccine clinical trial has gone badly wrong. After discovering good clinical practice violations at some trial sites, the partners have removed around half of the enrolled participants from the study. |
By Andrea Park Philips has identified two potential issues in some ventilators that were newly refurbished as result of the June 2021 recall of 5.5 million of the company's respiratory devices. |
By James Waldron Rather than racing to get an “off-the-shelf” CAR-T into the clinic or going all-in on a solid tumor strategy, GSK executives told Fierce Biotech they believe the Big Pharma's genetics expertise will offer the smoothest path to market success. |
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By Kevin Dunleavy In 2020, when Novartis and Roche were fined 444 million euros ($475 million) by France’s Autorite de la Concurrence, it was the largest ever penalty levied by the country’s anti-competition watchdog. Three years later, the Swiss pharma giants are off the hook. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner Merck has reached a deal with real estate business Onyx Equities to sell its 108-acre campus in Kenilworth, NJ, where the drug behemoth relocated its main digs back in 2015. Merck will move out of Kenilworth in phases over the next “several years” as it completes an expansion at its new headquarters in Rahway, NJ. |
By Andrea Park A vulnerability found in software used to monitor some of BD’s infusion pumps could potentially give hackers access to personal data stored in the system. |
By Annalee Armstrong Moderna checked off two influenza A strains in a phase 3 clinical trial for a new flu shot candidate, but the vaccine struggled against two B strains in the same test, marking a mixed readout for the famed mRNA biotech. |
By Angus Liu Merck & Co.’s Keytruda has risen from the ashes with a positive stomach cancer trial readout. But there’s some reconciliation to do with a past failure that led to the withdrawal of an accelerated approval. |
By Andrea Park In a full-year earnings report published Thursday, Labcorp reported a 7.7% year-over-year drop in revenues in 2022, thanks almost entirely to a COVID diagnostics haul that weighed in at less than half the size of the previous year’s. |
By Kevin Dunleavy Madrigal’s resmetirom fared better than Intercept’s Ocaliva in a study by ICER assessing cost-effectiveness in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). There are no approved treatments for the disorder which affects between 1.5% and 6.5% of adults in the United States. |
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| This week on "The Top Line," we discuss the intense patent fight between Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech around the mRNA technology used in their COVID-19 vaccines. We also talk about negotiating vaccine contracts via text messages, one of the biggest medtech deals of the year and other top headlines from this week. |
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 2pm ET / 11am PT Join this webinarto hear industry experts across the clinical research space share their perspectives on inefficiencies in the current clinical research space, how to prioritize change, where to begin, how to measure success, and considerations when evaluating and selecting enabling technology. Register now. 
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Research Learn more on an approach for process characterization for the production of a monoclonal antibody, which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process by targeting the right design and number of experiments. Sponsored by: Catalent |
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Whitepaper Planning on using a CRO to support your next clinical study? This infographic outlines critical areas to address at the start of the relationship in order to ensure that budget and timelines keep on track for the duration of the trial. Sponsored by: Catalent |
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