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Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Urovant Sciences’ vibegron has hit the co-primary endpoints in a phase 3 overactive bladder trial. But with the drug failing to clearly outperform a generic used as an active control, the results leave room to doubt whether vibegron poses a big threat to Astellas’ Myrbetriq. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, March 19, 2019 The level of interest in gene therapies has been laid bare by a report on Biogen’s pursuit of Nightstar Therapeutics. Biogen ultimately landed its target with an $877 million (€772 million) all-cash offer, but only after seeing off interest from three other companies. Tuesday, March 19, 2019 PhaseBio reported phase 1 data for its Brilinta (ticagrelor) reversal agent on Sunday that showed the drug quickly reversed the antiplatelet effects of Brilinta without causing serious side effects. The company plans to kick off a phase 2a study in the first half of this year. Monday, March 18, 2019 The gene p53 has long been a target of intense research in the oncology community because, in its unaltered form, it suppresses cancer. Now a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has discovered an enzyme that acts as a key regulator of the p53 protein, a finding they believe could inspire new ideas for targeting p53 with drugs. Tuesday, March 19, 2019 AbbVie and Roche are looking to move key oncology drug Venclexta deeper into the blood cancer arena, but their ambitions just took a hit. After flagging deaths in a phase 3 multiple myeloma trial, the FDA put all of Venclexta's studies in that disease on partial hold. | This week's sponsor is Accenture. | |  | [Webinar] Embracing Emerging Technology in Drug Development
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