Patient death halts Salarius sarcoma trial enrollment

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Oct 18, 2022

Roche drops midphase hepatitis B and eye disease programs in quarterly pipeline clearout

Lilly spies value in biotech bear market, snapping up hearing loss gene therapy player Akouos for $487M

Salarius hits pause on enrollment of lead sarcoma asset trial after patient death

J&J, flush with blood cancer assets, cuts one from the pipeline

Bill and Melinda Gates Institute license 2 of Merck's TB antibiotic candidates

GSK decides time is right to pay Tempus $70M to expand access to patient data library

SPAC is EBAC: Swiss biotech with ocular pipeline takes blank-check route

AstraZeneca, FibroGen's roxadustat holds promise for sickle cell disease

 

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Roche drops midphase hepatitis B and eye disease programs in quarterly pipeline clearout

Roche has taken the scissors to its clinical development pipeline, snipping off phase 2 studies of potential treatments for hepatitis B virus and geographic atrophy in the quarterly cull of its investigational assets.
 

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Lilly spies value in biotech bear market, snapping up hearing loss gene therapy player Akouos for $487M

Eli Lilly has capitalized on the biotech bear market to snap up hearing loss gene therapy player Akouos for $487 million upfront. The deal will give Lilly control of a treatment for a genetic form of hearing loss that is advancing toward a phase 1/2 trial just ahead of Decibel Therapeutics’ rival candidate.

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Salarius hits pause on enrollment of lead sarcoma asset trial after patient death

Salarius Pharmaceuticals has paused enrollment on a phase 1/2 trial of its lead candidate following the death of one patient.

J&J, flush with blood cancer assets, cuts one from the pipeline

J&J has axed an early-stage blood cancer asset amid a shifting of the company's phase 1 roster. It comes as two additional hematological assets were added to the pipeline.

Bill and Melinda Gates Institute license 2 of Merck's TB antibiotic candidates

Tuberculosis has become increasingly difficult to treat as antibiotic resistance rises and the pipeline of antibiotics in development thins out. Now, Merck & Co. has handed over two preclinical tuberculosis antibiotics to the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute to help tackle the problem.

GSK decides time is right to pay Tempus $70M to expand access to patient data library

GSK is paying $70 million to plug into Tempus’ AI-enabled patient data platform with the aim of improving its clinical trial design, speeding up enrollment and identifying new drug targets.

SPAC is EBAC: Swiss biotech with ocular pipeline takes blank-check route

As SPAC deals in biotech make a slow comeback, another merger has been penned, this time between Swiss biotech Oculis and European Biotech Acquisition Corp.

AstraZeneca, FibroGen's roxadustat holds promise for sickle cell disease

The finding opens the door to the use of proline hydroxylase inhibitors to treat beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease.

Roche's COVID drugs tumble $1B as new eye launch Vabysmo rushes to counter biosimilar-hit Lucentis

Roche's COVID-19 therapies Ronapreve and Actemra gave the drugmaker a sales boost a year ago amid a surge in infections. But as cases ebb, sales of the drugs are falling sharply. To make things worse, biosimilars continue to wreak havoc on Roche's portfolio as newer drugs disappoint.

Theranica aims to stretch FDA nod with study of neuromodulation device as preventive migraine treatment

Theranica is once again asking the FDA to expand its neuromodulation device's approved usage, positioning it as a preventive migraine therapy, in addition to its current use as an acute, on-demand treatment.

SCAN launches new Medicare Advantage plan for LGBTQ+ seniors

SCAN Health Plan is launching a new plan designed for LGBTQ+ seniors, and executives said they hope the industry takes notice.

LG Chem picks up Aveo and its kidney cancer drug Fotivda for $566M

Aveo Oncology took a circuitous route on its way to gaining FDA approval for its kidney cancer drug Fotivda. Now with Aveo’s sale to LG Chem, the Korean company hopes to have better luck developing Fotivda and Aveo’s other oncology candidates. On Tuesday, the companies revealed the purchase for what amounts to $566 million.
 
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