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Moderna, Merck & Co. mRNA cancer vaccine slashes melanoma recurrence in Keytruda combo trial
AstraZeneca, Biogen, Daiichi, Lundbeck, UCB all hit with drug marketing breaches, but highest censure reserved for Novo Nordisk
Special Report—The highest paid medtech CEOs
Pfizer, ripping up its traditional social media playbook, posts a meme hitting back at disinformation
GSK pays $170M upfront to continue to ride oligonucleotide wave for years to come
Eli Lilly says 4 new launches will help drive its 2023 revenue past $30B
Buyout on Horizon: Amgen floats $28B offer for rare disease drug maker as Sanofi exits bidding war
Gilead lands new cell therapy for Kite in $225M Arcellx deal, providing global scale for future J&J-Legend showdown
J&J leads $85M funding for HistoSonics' tumor-blasting ultrasound amid FDA review
UPDATED: As Novo irons out obesity supply wrinkles, blockbuster-to-be Wegovy debuts in Europe
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| By Conor Hale,Andrea Park When we added up the salaries, stock options, vested shares and bonuses awarded across the industry, we found some interesting additions to our list of the biggest medtech bigwigs. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor Merck & Co. has shown why it bet $250 million on Moderna’s mRNA cancer immunotherapy. Weeks after Merck opted into the program, the partners have revealed the personalized candidate reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 44% when given to melanoma patients in combination with Keytruda. |
By Ben Adams Six pharma companies are on Santa’s naughty list this Christmas. AstraZeneca, Biogen, Daiichi Sankyo, Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk and UCB have all been hit by the U.K.’s drug marketing regulator the PMCPA. |
By Ben Adams You have to double-check that a recent tweet out from Pfizer’s official corporate account was in fact real and not from the slew of imposter accounts set up in recent weeks designed to tweet controversial statements under the guise of an official account. |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | 11am ET / 8am PT UGTs are the most common enzymes involved in metabolism after CYP enzymes, followed by numerous hydrolases, carbonyl reductases, aldehyde oxidase and other enzymes. Hear Dr. Brian Ogilvie discuss case studies and strategies to address non-CYP related metabolism questions in your drug’s safety assessment. Register now. 
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By James Waldron GSK has added another oligonucleotide to its pipeline, with potentially plenty more to follow courtesy of a $170 million upfront collaboration with Wave Life Sciences. |
By Zoey Becker As the year wraps up, Eli Lilly has set high ambitions for the year ahead. As the diabetes launch Mounjaro gains steam, the company says it expects total revenues to exceed $30 billion next year. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner It’s official: Just weeks after rare disease drug maker Horizon Therapeutics revealed it was at the heart of a bidding war between Amgen, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi, Big Biotech Amgen has emerged with a multibillion-dollar M&A victory. |
By Annalee Armstrong Gilead landed its Kite unit at Arcellx to work on a phase 2 multiple myeloma cell therapy, a deal worth $225 million upfront plus a $100 million equity investment. |
By Andrea Park HistoSonics' noninvasive ablation technology directs focused ultrasound toward targeted tissue from outside the body. The company is focusing first on attacking tumors in the liver. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner While Wegovy still hasn’t made its way to the U.K., the obesity med did launch in Novo Nordisk's home market of Denmark Monday, a company spokesperson said over email. |
By Helen Floersh Takeda is seeing some positive signals from its $3.6 billion deal with Poseida Therapeutics with promising preclinical data on the companies’ hemophilia A therapy P-FVIII-101. |
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