Featured Story | By Max Bayer Gilead's CD47 cancer program is back on track—for the most part—after the FDA lifted clinical holds placed in January on five trials. But the agency is keeping two additional trials on ice, Gilead said Monday after market. read more |
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Top Stories By Annalee Armstrong,Angus Liu Finding a way to drug KRAS-mutated cancers was a major leap forward for oncology, and we have Amgen to thank for getting the first therapy across the finish line. But Novartis, for one, sees room for improvement. read more By Gabrielle Masson Despite the growing threat posed by drug-resistant bacteria, new antibiotics may not reach the market for another decade, according to the head of a $1 billion fund tasked with seeking out solutions. read more By Annalee Armstrong Myelofibrosis is the cancer that keeps going and going—and AbbVie hopes new data from the phase 2 med navitoclax can make the case for stopping the rare and difficult-to-treat disease in its tracks. read more By Max Bayer Carlyle Group is making its move into funding drug developers with mid-to-late-stage assets, absorbing transnational investment firm Abingworth. The two are also forming a new operating company to oversee, and hopefully better assist, the biopharmas they invest in. read more By Gabrielle Masson Aurion Biotech is setting its sights high with a mission to restore vision for millions of patients via regenerative therapies and a $120 million financing round to back the tech. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Aeglea BioTherapeutics’ bid to rehabilitate the battered reputation of its rare disease drug pegzilarginase has made early progress. Investors responded favorably to the presentation of additional phase 3 data, sending the stock up 21% in light of evidence the enzyme may act on clinical outcomes. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Takeda has tapped Engitix for a solution to an unmet need in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Having inked a $500 million deal to work with Engitix in liver diseases in 2020, Takeda has now put up a further $300 million to expand use of the extracellular matrix discovery platform to IBD. read more By Gareth Macdonald Charles River Laboratories says all its facilities in North America and Europe will run on “100% renewable” electricity starting next year. read more By Sophia Sorensen Scientists may have just made a breakthrough in treating the obesity epidemic, and the secret, it turns out, is in your liver. Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio found they could decrease appetite and increase fat shedding in obese mice after inhibiting a liver enzyme, with weight loss as the overall result. read more By Kevin Dunleavy 2021 was all about recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Several companies that quickly developed products to combat the coronavirus reaped huge profits, while others benefited simply from a return to more normalized business operations. Here's how the year shook out for the top 20 drugmakers by global revenues. read more By Dave Muoio Nonfederal hospitals saw an 8.4% increase in drug spending during 2021 while clinics shouldered a 7.7% gain, according to a recent report from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. read more By Andrea Park Fitbit's PPG technology is designed to work in the background throughout the day and night when a wearer is still or asleep. read more By Ben Adams For more than three weeks, 68 drug names battled to become your FierceMadness champion, and in the end, that honor went to ChemoCentryx and its autoimmune disease drug Tavneos. 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