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| By Annalee Armstrong By the time GSK sealed the deal on Bellus Health in April, the U.K. pharma knew exactly what not to do with the phase 3 chronic cough program. The company had watched Merck & Co. struggle with a rival med called gefapixant, taking notes. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor AbbVie has its eyes on accelerated approval of its c-Met antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). The candidate achieved a 35% response rate in a subset of lung cancer patients, spurring plans to talk to regulators, but unfavorable comparisons to an earlier data drop partly took the shine off the update. |
By Max Bayer Phenomic AI went from radio silence to two deals in two days, this time signing an antibody-focused pact with Astellas. ShapeTX has also been busy, expanding an existing collaboration with Roche to tack on another target. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor Cybin has put out more data on its psychedelic treatment for depression, presenting clinical data from a phase 2 trial that suggest there may be benefits to repeat administration but not to increasing the dose. |
By Helen Floersh Just as things were getting overheated in the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) drug space, GLP-1 receptor agonists showed up to the party with the potential to treat some symptoms of the chronic liver disease. Now, preclinical data from Sagimet Biosciences hints that when it comes to treating NASH, blockbuster GLP-1 drugs like Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide may be more of an ally than a threat to pharma companies pursuing the indication. |
By Helen Floersh New findings from researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre suggest that a protein called gp120 might be a key culprit behind comorbidities associated with HIV. |
By James Waldron Against a backdrop of Big Pharma’s slow progress to increase the diversity of clinical trials, Merck & Co. has teamed up with digital health company Acclinate to try and enroll more African American patients in its cancer drug studies. |
By Angus Liu The sizzling antibody-drug conjugate field is at the center of another major life sciences deal. Hoping to redeem itself following the epic Rova-T failure, AbbVie is shelling out $10.1 billion in cash to acquire ImmunoGen, maker of the ovarian cancer treatment Elahere. |
By Conor Hale CrossBay’s approach does away with the metal forceps typically needed to reach the inner uterus and has collected clearances in endometrial biopsies and IVF procedures. |
By Ben Adams As gene therapies ramp up in spinal muscular atrophy and hemophilia, it may soon be the turn of Gaucher disease patients to realize the latent potential of this type of treatment. |
By Angus Liu As industry watchers deliberate the implications from the FDA's investigation into secondary cancer risks from CAR-T medicines, an upcoming expert meeting could offer precious clarity from drug regulators. |
By Dave Muoio The nonprofit will add five new buildings spanning 2.4 million square feet, two of which will be clinical facilities with designs intended to support continuous, tech-enabled care. |
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