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Mar 10, 2025

Novo Nordisk links CagriSema to 16% weight loss, sending stock down again

Amgen ignites Rocket program with phase 3 wins for $400M eczema prospect

J&J, Protagonist's oral psoriasis prospect bests BMS' Sotyktu in pair of phase 3 trials

Mineralys’ stock jumps as hypertension drug posts double clinical wins

Agomab’s ALK5 inhibitor hits target in phase 2 Crohn’s disease trial

Nasdaq stock market plans move to 24-hour trading

NIH unveils plan to centralize grant reviews in effort to save $65M+ annually

Arrowhead finds RNAi kidney disease candidate is well tolerated in phase 1/2 IgAN trial cohort

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Novo Nordisk links CagriSema to 16% weight loss, sending stock down again

By Nick Paul Taylor

Novo Nordisk’s vision of 25%-plus weight loss is looking further and further away. Three months after missing that target in its first phase 3 CagriSema trial, the Danish drugmaker has fallen even further short of that bar in the second study.

Amgen ignites Rocket program with phase 3 wins for $400M eczema prospect

By Nick Paul Taylor

The data drops provide more evidence that rocatinlimab improves outcomes in atopic dermatitis, but questions about the positioning of the anti-OX40 antibody versus Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent remain unanswered.

J&J, Protagonist's oral psoriasis prospect bests BMS' Sotyktu in pair of phase 3 trials

By James Waldron

Johnson & Johnson’s once-daily oral peptide has bested Bristol Myers Squibb’s reigning oral psoriasis med Sotyktu in a pair of phase 3 trials.

Mineralys’ stock jumps as hypertension drug posts double clinical wins

By James Waldron

Mineralys Therapeutics enjoyed a big stock bump after its aldosterone synthase inhibitor chalked up wins in two types of hypertension.

Agomab’s ALK5 inhibitor hits target in phase 2 Crohn’s disease trial

By James Waldron

Agomab’s ALK5 inhibitor has proven its ability to target the correct part of the intestine in a phase 2 trial of fibrostenosing Crohn’s disease.

Nasdaq stock market plans move to 24-hour trading in US

By Gabrielle Masson

Nasdaq plans to roll out 24-hour trading for U.S. companies in a move designed to modernize the market.

NIH unveils plan to centralize grant reviews in effort to save $65M+ annually

By Darren Incorvaia

The National Institutes of Health unveiled a plan on March 6 to move the peer review of grant applications, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts to a central location at the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR).

Arrowhead finds RNAi kidney disease candidate is well tolerated in phase 1/2 IgAN trial cohort

By Gabrielle Masson

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals’ phase 1/2a study has found the company’s investigational RNA interference (RNAi) candidate was generally well tolerated among 14 patients with kidney disease.

On the heels of FDA nod for cancer drug, Sun Pharma buys Checkpoint Therapeutics for up to $416M

By Angus Liu

Three months after an FDA approval for cancer immunotherapy Unloxcyt, Checkpoint Therapeutics has found a buyer.

All HHS employees offered $25K voluntary buyout offer: media reports

By Noah Tong

HHS employees, a workforce about 80,000 strong, were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment, multiple media outlets reported.

Neurotech nabs FDA approval to treat rare eye disorder with cell therapy implant Encelto

By Fraiser Kansteiner

The FDA last week approved Neurotech’s cell therapy implant revakinagene taroretcel to treat the vision-robbing neurodegenerative disease macular telangiectasia type 2. The therapy, which will adopt the brand name Encelto, is the first to win the FDA’s blessing in the rare vision disorder.

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