Cancer cells are different from normal cells in that they can avoid a naturally programmed cell death process known as apoptosis and grow almost indefinitely. In their third collaboration, Boehringer Ingelheim and Vanderbilt University have their eyes on a target that helps cancer cells evade death.
The FDA has slapped a clinical hold on a combo therapy using Advaxis’$ADXS axalimogene filolisbac along with AstraZeneca’s approved PD-L1 Imfinzi following the death of a patient in their Phase I/II trial.
Four health systems — Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension, SSM Health and Trinity Health — and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will launch a nonprofit generic drug company.
Viela Bio announced today that it has incorporated as an independent, inflammation - and autoimmunity - focused biotechnology company after spinning out from MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca. Viela Bio will primarily focus on developing medicines for severe autoimmune diseases by targeting critical pathways that are the root cause of the diseases.
The EMA has accepted the Marketing Authorization Application for romosozumab in the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and in men at increased risk of fracture.
AstraZeneca AZN and partner Merck MRK announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted approval to its PARP inhibitor, Lynparza, as a maintenance therapy for relapsed ovarian cancer, irrespective of BRCA mutation status in patients who have responded to their last platinum-based chemotherapy.
European regulators have issued a green light for Amgen and Allergan’s Mvasi, marking the first biosimilar of Roche’s Avastin to be approved in the region. The drug has been cleared to treat a range of indications spanning carcinoma of the colon or rectum, breast cancer; nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer, renal cell cancer; platinum-sensitive, or platinum-resistant recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer and cervical cancer. The companies noted that the approval came after trial data showed a high degree of similarity between Mvasi (biosimilar bevacizumab) and its reference drug, “with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity between the products”. Mvasi is the first product borne out of an alliance between Amgen and Allergan to bag marketing authorisation from the European Commission, “highlighting the success of our joint commitment to developing cancer biosimilars,” noted David Nicholson, chief research and development officer at ...
Pandion Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing bispecific antibody therapeutics to achieve localized immunomodulation, today announced the completion of a $58 million Series A financing. This funding will be used to advance its initial drug programs for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases toward the clinic, as well as to continue building the company’s technology platform and pipeline. Polaris Partners, the founding investor that provided the initial seed funding, co-led the Series A financing along with Versant Ventures and Roche Venture Fund. SR One and BioInnovation Capital also participated in the round.
Scholar Rock has raised $47 million to take its treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) into the clinic. The series C tees up Scholar Rock to find out whether its myostatin blocker can best the underwhelming performance of one-time rivals from companies including Novartis.
Approval based on data from the Phase III RESORCE study where Stivarga® (regorafenib) demonstrated significant improvement in overall survival in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients previously treated with Nexavar® (sorafenib)
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