GSK has exercised its option for a non-exclusive licence to Elsie Biotechnologies’s discovery platform to detect and develop new oligonucleotides. The move follows a successful research collaboration initiated last year, aimed at harnessing the platform’s capabilities for oligonucleotide drug discovery. In July 2023, GSK and Elsie Biotechnologies entered a research collaboration. Their goal was to advance the discovery and development of new oligonucleotides, prioritising efficacy, safety and delivery. The partnership leveraged GSK’s expertise in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-encoded library technologies and Elsie’s drug discovery platform. During the initial research period, the companies focused on exploring the full potential of Elsie’s platform. GSK’s option for a non-exclusive licence was part of the original agreement, allowing for the application of Elsie’s discovery platform and chemistry technologies in GSK’s oligonucleotide drug discovery projects. Elsie is entitled to receive a licence payment from GSK, along with future milestone payments on meeting development and commercial goals ...
GSK has a lot of experience with its shingles vaccine Shingrix in getting the older population to take their shots; now, with the approval of the world’s first RSV vaccine last year, the U.K. Big Pharma is looking for a slow burn approach for its latest respiratory shot. During GSK’s official J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024 presentation, CEO Emma Walmsley and Chief Commercial Officer Luke Miels spoke on how the company is looking to carve out a RSV market with its new vax Arexvy. “Creating a market is absolutely fundamental,” Walmsley said during the JPM presentation. “Three years ago, I don’t know how broadly the awareness was of the general public about RSV for older adults, even though it’s a scale disease that hospitalizes tens of thousands of Americans that were on, sadly 15,000 died. “So, we’re at very early stages of penetration of the market. I think competition and ...
Though GSK divested much of its oncology assets to Novartis in 2015, the company has built it back through a internal R&D and business development deals. GSK Senior Vice President, Global Head of Oncology, R&D Hesham Abdullah explained the company’s evolving cancer strategy in an interview during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. By FRANK VINLUAN GSK committed $270 million up front in recent months to gain access to early-stage assets in the class of cancer therapies known as antibody drug conjugates, or ADCs. The deals are part of a broad industry to acquire assets in this therapeutic modality, GSK’s top cancer executive Hesham Abdullah acknowledges. But for GSK, the deals are just one part of an evolving oncology strategy. The strategy has been years in the making. In 2015, GSK divested its oncology business, which Novartis acquired for $16 billion. Abdullah, who is GSK’s senior vice president, ...
Pharmaceutical Executive Editorial Staff Jemperli plus standard-of-care chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by Jemperli plus Zejula as maintenance therapy produced a statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefit in progression-free survival in patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. GSK’s Jemperli (dostarlimab) produced a significant improvement in survival among adults with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer in a Phase III trial.1 Findings from the RUBY/ENGOT-EN6/GOG3031/NSGO trial show that Jemperli plus standard-of-care chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by Jemperli plus Zejula (niraparib) as maintenance therapy, achieved the primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS). The combination led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefit across the overall patient population and among a subpopulation of patients with mismatch repair proficient/microsatellite stable (MMRp/MSS) tumors in those with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. “Patients with MMRp/MSS primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer have few approved treatment options,” Hesham Abdullah, senior ...
GSK gains rights to a Hansoh Pharma antibody drug conjugate that targets a protein abundant on lung cancer cells and other types of solid tumors. The pharmaceutical giant plans to start its own slate of clinical trials with this ADC in 2024. By FRANK VINLUAN GSK’s cancer drug pipeline is getting bigger with the addition of another antibody drug conjugate, or ADC. It’s the second time in as many months that GSK has turned to Hansoh Pharma for one of the China-based biotech’s drugs. Per deal terms announced Wednesday, GSK is paying $185 million up front for rights to HS-20093, a Hansoh ADC that has been tested in lung cancer. GSK gains global rights to the drug candidate excluding mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. ADCs are made by chemically linking an antibody to a toxic drug payload. The targeting ability of the antibody is meant to provide a ...
On a mission to grow in oncology, GSK has more positive data to report in endometrial cancer. This time, the company is touting results for its PD-1 inhibitor Jemperli and PARP inhibitor Zejula, which could become a threat to a rival therapy at AstraZeneca. Adding Jemperli and Zejula to chemotherapy significantly extended the time before tumor progression or death in patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer that’s mismatch repair proficient or microsatellite stable (pMMR/MSS), GSK said Monday. The results came from the second part of the phase 3 RUBY trial. The trial also showed that the Jemperli-Zejula-chemo regimen was better at delaying disease worsening than chemo alone in the overall population, regardless of genetic stability. But GSK appears to think that the combo has more value in the pMMR/MSS subgroup. Patients with pMMR/MSS endometrial cancer have few treatment options, Hesham Abdullah, GSK’s head of oncology R&D, said in ...
By Tristan Manalac Pictured: GSK building in Poznan, Poland/iStock, Wirestock GSK CEO Emma Walmsley on Thursday touted the smooth launch of its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Arexvy and its strong potential for growth in the coming years. In an interview with Reuters, Walmsley said the British biopharma is “delighted” with the progress it has made in the RSV vaccine race with Pfizer. “We are delighted with the start of our RSV vaccine,” Walmsley said, adding that the company expects Arexvy “will be more than £1 billion in its first year, (it) has lots of headroom for growth.” GSK is positioning Arexvy to be its next blockbuster asset. The U.S. launch of the vaccine has so far reached three million of the more than 80 million adults over 60 at risk from RSV, according to Walmsley. Arexvy became the first FDA-approved RSV shot in May 2023 and is authorized for use ...
Don Tracy, Associate Editor Blenrep significantly extended the time to disease progression or death against existing care methods as a second-line treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. GSK announced positive results from an interim analysis of its DREAMM-7 head-to-head Phase 3 trial evaluating belantamab mafodotin (Blenrep) as a second-line treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. According to a company press release, the trial met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) and showed that Blenrep when combined with bortezomib plus dexamethasone (BorDex) significantly extended the time to disease progression or death versus daratumumab plus BorDex, an existing standard of care for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.1 “Patients with multiple myeloma need treatment options after first relapse that are efficacious, readily accessible and have novel mechanisms of action,” said Hesham Abdullah, SVP, global head, oncology, R&D, GSK, in a press release.1 “We are particularly encouraged by the potential for belantamab mafodotin ...
By Tyler Patchen Pictured: A neurosurgeon analyzes an MRI/iStock, gorodenkoff GSK spinout Autifony Therapeutics has entered into an exclusive global licensing deal potentially worth $770.5 million with Jazz Pharmaceuticals for two different ion channel targets associated with neurological disorders. Under the deal announced on Tuesday, the U.K.-based biotech Autifony will receive an undisclosed upfront payment from Jazz and is eligible to receive development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as royalties on any future net sales. Autifony, which is focused on developing treatments for central nervous system disorders and other brain diseases, will spearhead the drug discovery and the preclinical development of the two ion channel targets. Prior to the completion of preclinical development, Jazz will take over clinical development and assume responsibility for manufacturing, regulatory actions and commercialization. “Jazz has an exceptional track record of rapidly advancing neuroscience development programs and effectively commercializing novel therapies that offer improvements ...
GSK’s momelotinib has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee as the first treatment option specifically indicated for myelofibrosis patients with moderate-to-severe anaemia. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended that the drug be used to treat disease-related splenomegaly or symptoms in adult patients with moderate-to-severe anaemia who have primary myelofibrosis, post polycythaemia vera myelofibrosis or post essential thrombocythaemia myelofibrosis. Eligible patients will also have either not been treated with JAK inhibitors before or have been treated with Novartis’ Jakavi (ruxolitinib), GSK said. Myelofibrosis is a rare blood cancer that can lead to severely low blood counts, with about 40% of patients having moderate-to-severe anaemia at the time of diagnosis and nearly all patients developing anaemia at some point in the course of their disease. Transfusions are often required by myelofibrosis patients with anaemia and more than 30% will discontinue treatment ...
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