Cerevel investors relieved by safety data

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Dec 20, 2022

Kite swoops in to buy Carl June-founded Tmunity, gaining key to Penn's CAR-T research apparatus


Fresh from Vertex payday, Entrada's DMD plans are derailed by FDA hold


Cerevel investors' blood pressure relieved as safety data de-risks schizophrenia drug


Otonomy shuts up shop, lays off all employees after string of ear drug failures


REGiMMUNE touts 'compelling' midstage data in stem call transplant patients, readies phase 3


FDA's accelerated approval reforms sneak into Congress' last-minute spending bill


New compound shows promise in reversing dangerous fentanyl effects

 

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Kite swoops in to buy Carl June-founded Tmunity, gaining key to Penn's CAR-T research apparatus

Gilead-owned Kite Pharma is buying Carl June-founded Tmunity, significantly widening its CAR-T-focused expertise. The deal gives the Yescarta maker access to a range of potential cell therapy technologies developed by University of Pennsylvania researchers.
 

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Fresh from Vertex payday, Entrada's DMD plans are derailed by FDA hold

Entrada Therapeutics has been dragged back to Earth thanks to a clinical hold placed by the FDA on its Duchenne muscular dystrophy program.

Cerevel investors' blood pressure relieved as safety data de-risks schizophrenia drug

Cerevel Therapeutics investors themselves had some raised blood pressure as they anxiously awaited phase 1 safety results for the biotech’s schizophrenia drug. With the news that it does not, in fact, raise blood pressure, an analyst from Mizuho Securities is hoping the rest of the Pfizer apprentice’s pipeline can shine.

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Otonomy shuts up shop, lays off all employees after string of ear drug failures

You have to admire Otonomy’s perseverance. The biotech has experienced a series of clinical failures throughout a gruelling year but kept the faith in its ear disorder pipeline.

REGiMMUNE touts 'compelling' midstage data in stem call transplant patients, readies phase 3

REGiMMUNE’s lead candidate to prevent graft-versus-host disease after stem cell transplants has passed its phase 2 test, setting the Taiwan-based biotech up for a late-stage showdown.

FDA's accelerated approval reforms sneak into Congress' last-minute spending bill

The FDA's accelerated approval pathway could be in for an overhaul, with new reforms included in the latest congressional spending bill.

New compound shows promise in reversing dangerous fentanyl effects

The scientists behind the discovery showed that it counteracted methamphetamine, too, and found that it was capable of binding to many other drugs of abuse.

From telehealth to Medicare cuts: Here are the health policies in Congress' $1.7T omnibus

Congress released a major omnibus package that includes a slew of healthcare policies, including partial relief to physicians from several Medicare cuts.

Cancer center leaders lay bare CAR-T makers' struggles—and an unexpected laggard

Despite five years of collective experience making and selling engineered human cell products, CAR-T companies are still having trouble ensuring smooth and timely access. For this report, Fierce Pharma talked to cell therapy leaders at three top cancer centers to understand how recent CAR-T launches are progressing in the real world.

J&J’s Auris Health, Verb Surgical accuse 3 former employees of trade secret theft

A trio of Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries have filed suit against a handful of former employees and their current company, accusing the workers of stealing tens of thousands of J&J documents.

OIG calls for tighter scrutiny of providers' Medicare bad debt reimbursement claims

The federal watchdog's audit of 148 Medicare bad debt claims from 2016 to 2018 found 22 instances in which reimbursement should have been denied. OIG called on HHS to provide additional, specific guidance to Medicare administrative contractors on when to review these claims.

With bigger fish to fry, Eisai unloads US rights to epilepsy drug Fycompa to Catalyst

With Eisai on the verge of a scoring a potential approval for its Biogen-partnered Alzheimer’s disease drug lecanemab, the Japanese pharma is thinking big. On Monday, Eisai inked a deal to unload one of its smaller potatoes, epilepsy drug Fycompa. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals will pick up its rights in the U.S. for $160 million upfront, with milestone and royalty payments tied to its future success.
 
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