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Apr 21, 2023

FDA again delays Daiichi's plans to challenge Astellas and Novartis for blood cancer market


Playing catch-up, Boehringer taps RetinAI for AI boost to eye disease R&D


Jennifer Doudna's research institute takes CRISPR to cow burps in quest to solve climate change


Chutes & Ladders—Joe Biden reportedly tapping NCI chief to lead NIH

 

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FDA again delays Daiichi's plans to challenge Astellas and Novartis for blood cancer market

Daiichi Sankyo’s long wait for approval of quizartinib just grew a little longer. Having bounced back from a 2019 rejection, the Japanese drugmaker has now learned the FDA needs another three months to review its second attempt to launch a challenger to Astellas and Novartis in a blood cancer market.
 

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Playing catch-up, Boehringer taps RetinAI for AI boost to eye disease R&D

Boehringer Ingelheim has tapped RetinAI to support its attempt to develop treatments for geographic atrophy, striking a deal to apply AI tools to its imaging data in a search for novel biomarkers and predictors of disease progression.

Jennifer Doudna's research institute takes CRISPR to cow burps in quest to solve climate change

Jennifer Doudna's Innovative Genomics Institute will use a new $70 million grant from TED to develop gene editing and metagenomics tools to reduce greenhouse gases from cow burps.

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Chutes & Ladders—Joe Biden reportedly tapping NCI chief to lead NIH

President Joe Biden will tap the current head of the National Cancer Institute and former cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., to lead the National Institutes of Health. The move is the first permanent replacement for the federal institute after Francis Collins retired in 2021.  

Taros Chemicals, Welab ink partnership deal to aid client R&D

Taros Chemicals, a German small molecule CRO, inked a partnership deal with Spain’s Welab in an effort to broaden their scope of R&D offerings to clients.

Moderna enlists IBM for quantum computing, AI training

The biotech has signed on with Big Blue to explore the use of quantum computers in developing its future medicines, using systems that could make it easier to solve the tricky molecular-modeling problems that have, at times, been too complex for previous generations of hardware.

In Zetia antitrust case, Merck and Glenmark ink deals with 2 plaintiff groups as retailers hold out

In February, a federal judge said Merck & Co. and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals would have to face a jury trial over an alleged pay-for-delay deal tied to the cholesterol med Zetia. Now, two plaintiff groups have gotten in line behind settlement offers. But holdouts could still force Merck and Glenmark to defend themselves in court.

Johnson & Johnson talc cases put on hold—again—by US bankruptcy court

Applying lessons learned from its first failed bankruptcy for talc lawsuits may produce dividends for Johnson & Johnson. Thursday, U.S. bankruptcy judge Michael Kaplan froze more than 38,000 lawsuits for 60 days as part of the company’s second attempt to declare bankruptcy for its subsidiary, LTL Management, which was established to hold the cases

'The Top Line': How Pfizer became the first in Big Pharma history to break $100B in sales, plus this week's headlines

This week on "The Top Line," we talk about how Pfizer became the first company in Big Pharma history with $100 billion in sales. We also dive into a J&J data leak, Eli Lilly's manufacturing spending plan and more of this week's top headlines.

Fierce Pharma Asia—Carvykti's massive myeloma win; BeiGene's PD-1 comeback

J&J and Legend Biotech's Carvykti showed a massive cancer progression benefit in leaked multiple myeloma trial data. The pair also enlisted Novartis to help ramp up supply. Meanwhile, Novartis and BeiGene's tislelizumab came back with a broader win in stomach cancer. Plus more.
 
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