November 18, 2016

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Welcome to FierceLifeSci Weekly Digest, your Friday roundup of the biggest and most popular stories from each of our publications.

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Trump’s brief medicines update sends tongues wagging at ‘FDA reform’ promise

As the Trump bump for biotech continues to reverberate after he became president-elect on Wednesday, biotech may now have more to celebrate as a new, but lightly detailed, healthcare update is being seen by some as a positive read-through for the industry.


Top Stories Of The Week

While weighing Alcon's long-term fate, Novartis eyes $8B Amneal buy to beef up Sandoz

As Novartis execs admit that Alcon might not fit their long-term plans, the Swiss drugmaker is looking at a short-term boost for its Sandoz business: It's in talks to buy the U.S.-based generics maker Amneal for up to $8B.

Roche forms 21-site I/O R&D network, commits $100M

Roche has put together a cancer immunotherapy research network and committed up to $100 million to support collaborations between the 21 academic centers. Members of the network will share data, expertise and technology with a view to accelerating the progress of programs out of the lab and into the clinic.

Teva sets aside $520M to settle bribery investigations by DOJ, SEC

Teva is trying to clean the slate on its history of allegedly paying bribes in foreign countries and has put aside more than half a billion dollars to cover anticipated settlements with U.S. authorities.

Private eyes imprisoned in China sue GSK for bribery-scandal damages

Years removed from a bruising bribery scandal in China, GlaxoSmithKline has been winning awards for its corporate behavior. But a new lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court may bring the scandal back to the fore.

AbbVie's pan-genotypic hep C prospect shines in trials, putting the heat on rival Gilead

Gilead’s hep C sales are already taking a beating. And now, data show it could have some stiff competition coming its way from an AbbVie rival to its newest product in the field.

Scientists successfully grow working minilungs from stem cells

Scientists at the University of Michigan figured out long ago how to coax stem cells to grow into miniature lungs. But when they attempted to transplant the organs into mice, they failed, because the miniature lungs lacked the maturity and structure needed to be able to facilitate breathing. So biologists at the university teamed up with biomedical engineers to develop a solution to the problem.

Takeda's hefty dengue PhIII displays a vaccine unit with new 'global footprint,' exec says

It's no easy feat to take an experimental vaccine into a massive, 20,000-patient Phase III study in Asia and Latin America, but that's just what Takeda did this fall with its dengue shot. To get there, however, the company’s vax unit had to stoke up a global growth spurt.

NIH taps a trio of devicemakers for ‘artificial pancreas’ trial

Diabetes players Dexcom and Tandem Diabetes Care are joining forces with digital health company TypeZero Technologies on a closed-loop system for blood glucose control.

EMA updates first-in-human trial guidance to tighten volunteer safety

The European Medicines Agency has followed through on plans to update its guidance on first-in-human clinical trials in light of a fatality in a French study earlier this year.

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