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Today’s Big NewsNov 12, 2024 |
| By James Waldron Months after filing their Enhertu follow-up Dato-DXd with the FDA, Daiichi Sankyo and its antibody-drug conjugate partner AstraZeneca have taken the agency’s advice and pulled their lung cancer application to try their luck in a related indication. |
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By Gabrielle Masson GSK is paying $80 million to ink a multi-target neurodegenerative pact with Flagship-founded Vesalius Therapeutics that includes a preclinical small molecule initially targeting Parkinson’s disease. |
By James Waldron Bayer has become the latest in a long line of drug developers to give up on Huntington’s disease after the German pharma giant canned its phase 1 gene therapy for the disease. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor Merck KGaA’s $70 million bet on a treatment for a rare, locally aggressive cancer has delivered a phase 3 win. The tenosynovial giant cell tumor trial hit its primary endpoint, teeing up an option decision that could establish Merck as a global rival to Daiichi Sankyo and Ono Pharmaceutical in the indication. |
By James Waldron With Pfizer having recently scored an approval for its hemophilia B treatment Hympavzi, Centessa Pharmaceuticals has decided that taking its own contender to market is not worth the effort. |
By Nick Paul Taylor Novartis is paying $150 million for a closer look at Schrödinger’s catalog of programs. The Big Pharma will work with Schrödinger to advance some of the computing-enabled R&D shop’s discovery programs and identify candidates against additional targets. |
By Gabrielle Masson Roche and Flare Therapeutics are igniting a partnership worth more than $1.8 billion in biobucks with hopes of discovering new small molecule cancer treatments via previously undruggable transcription factor targets. |
By Gabrielle Masson Swiss biotech Alentis Therapeutics has secured $181.4 million, money that will be used to launch clinical trials for two antibody-drug conjugates. |
By James Waldron Trace Medicine has launched with $101 million in series A funds and a mission to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by targeting the same protein that recently caught the attention of Eli Lilly. |
By Gabrielle Masson With more than $80 million in hand, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has launched its own cell therapy institute. |
By Conor Hale The genetics testing company plans to seek out new homes for its in-house pipeline of DNA-informed immuno-oncology antibodies. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner AstraZeneca on Tuesday revealed that it’s adding $2 billion more to its current outlay in the U.S., representing a total capital investment of $3.5 billion. The cash will be used to grow the company’s research and production footprint in the States by the end of 2026, generating more than 1,000 new jobs along the way. |
By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya Though women's health providers also saw a jump in sales following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many say the latest surge exceeds previous numbers. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner Thermo Fisher is cutting a total of 160 jobs across three different viral vector facilities in Cambridge, Lexington and Plainville, according to a government filing in Massachusetts. In tandem with the staff reduction, Thermo Fisher also plans to shutter its facility in Lexington. |
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