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Pfizer, BioNTech strike back at Moderna with mRNA vaccine patent lawsuit


Vaxxinity will push for approval of COVID booster after trial shows noninferiority to market leader Pfizer


UPDATED: J&J bows out of Horizon bid as Amgen and Sanofi eye cash plays for rare disease drugmaker


UPDATED: KRAS battle heats up as Mirati pressures Amgen with Keytruda combo show in lung cancer


AstraZeneca partner FibroGen slaps former employees with trade secret theft lawsuit


Amgen, seeking to crash Novo's party, links bispecific to weight loss months after end of dosing


Fresenius Medical Care CEO Kriwet leaves 'at her own request' after 2 months


After telegraphing blockbuster expansion in Ireland, Pfizer heads east with €1.2B more


Bristol Myers Squibb's Zeposia, AbbVie's Skyrizi and Rinvoq shake up early IBD treatment market: report


Alzheimer's test could diagnose 'disease of exclusion' a lot earlier

 

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Pfizer, BioNTech strike back at Moderna with mRNA vaccine patent lawsuit

The clash of the COVID-19 vaccine titans just heated up. In response to Moderna's August lawsuit alleging patent infringement, Pfizer and BioNTech have clapped back with a countersuit, refuting Moderna’s claims.
 

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Vaxxinity will push for approval of COVID booster after trial shows noninferiority to market leader Pfizer

Vaxxinity’s next-gen COVID-19 booster candidate has hit its safety targets in a head-to-head trial against Pfizer-BioNTech’s, AstraZeneca’s and Sinopharm’s vaccines. The biotech plans to push ahead for approval in several countries.

UPDATED: J&J bows out of Horizon bid as Amgen and Sanofi eye cash plays for rare disease drugmaker

Complying with Irish takeover rules, Amgen alerted the London Stock Exchange Friday that “any offer by Amgen for Horizon is, or is likely to be, solely in cash.” Naturally, the company caveated that there can “be no certainty” an offer will materialize. Sanofi too will pitch its bid “solely in cash,” according to a press release sent out Friday.

UPDATED: KRAS battle heats up as Mirati pressures Amgen with Keytruda combo show in lung cancer

In a potential key battleground for KRAS inhibitors that involves combination with Merck's PD-1 king Keytruda, Mirati's adagrasib appears to be pulling ahead of Amgen’s first-to-market Lumakras in the latest clinical data revelation. But Mirati's stock price still tanked.

AstraZeneca partner FibroGen slaps former employees with trade secret theft lawsuit

FibroGen is cracking down on former employees accused of trade secret theft. The company filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

Amgen, seeking to crash Novo's party, links bispecific to weight loss months after end of dosing

Amgen’s late run for the obesity market is gathering pace. In phase 1, recipients of the highest dose of the company’s would-be challenger to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy maintained double-digit percentage weight loss 150 days after receiving the last of three shots. 

Fresenius Medical Care CEO Kriwet leaves 'at her own request' after 2 months

After months of lead-up, Carla Kriwet, Ph.D., spent only a few weeks at the helm of Fresenius Medical Care.

After telegraphing blockbuster expansion in Ireland, Pfizer heads east with €1.2B more

Friday, Pfizer said it would plug 1.2 billion euros into its manufacturing site in Puurs, Belgium, just one day after plotting an identical outlay in Dublin, Ireland. In Belgium, where the expansion will occur over the next three years, some projects have already been started, while others are scheduled to begin in early 2023, Pfizer said in a local press release.

Bristol Myers Squibb's Zeposia, AbbVie's Skyrizi and Rinvoq shake up early IBD treatment market: report

The U.S. inflammatory bowel disease market is seeing a shift in what drugs patients are offered for their first prescriptions. Doctors appear to be favoring the most recently approved drugs from the likes of Bristol Myers Squibb and AbbVie over older TNF therapies, according to a new report by Spherix Global Insights, a healthcare data consultancy.

Alzheimer's test could diagnose 'disease of exclusion' a lot earlier

Researchers have developed an assay that detects the toxic oligomers that drive Alzheimer’s disease progression. The peptide that makes the test work could one day be used as a treatment.
 
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