(CNN)A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has been found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study.
Roche is paying more than $1 billion upfront for the ex-U.S. rights to Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy SRP-9001. The deal comes days after Roche advanced its push into gene therapies by closing the takeover of Spark Therapeutics. Sarepta has linked SRP-9001 to microdystrophin expression levels of up to 96% in early clinical tests, leading it to start a 24-patient placebo-controlled trial that is due to deliver data next year. Coupled to a safety profile that so far makes SRP-9001 look a better prospect than rival gene therapies from Pfizer and Solid Biosciences, the efficacy data have put Sarepta at the forefront of efforts to develop a one-shot treatment for DMD. That has attracted the attention of Roche. The Swiss drugmaker is set to pay $750 million in cash and $400 million in equity upfront for the ex-U.S. rights to SRP-9001. Sarepta is also in line to ...
GW Pharmaceutical’s Epidiolex, the cannabidiol CBD that received a green light from the FDA for management of rare variants of epilepsy, is determined to change physicians’ perspectives about it and make it stand out from the oils available at cannabis stores and hence, recruited around 66 sales executives related to neurology dedicated to persuading 5,000 specialists who treat epilepsy in the U.S. “We’re the leader in this area, we’re science-based, and we believe physicians and patients will desire medicines that have gone through the FDA review process. When a drug is prescribed that’s FDA approved, you know it’s exactly the same every time it’s prescribed and every time it’s taken,” said Stephen Schultz, VP of investor relations at GW. In addition to the approval, GW was also granted with the change of class for Epidiolex from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule V which labels it under drugs that ...
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Finding the ultimate treatment for breast cancer is still a dream for all the pharma companies worldwide. At present, only hormonal therapy, Pfizer’s Ibrance, Eli Lilly’s Verzenio and Novartis’s Kisqali are available for breast cancer treatment.
Artios Pharma, a U.K. based company in Cambridge, has raised $84 million to take DNA damage response (DDR) programs to the next level of clinical proof of concept.
Declining sales of chief drugs of Novo Nordisk in the second quarter saw its shares falling on Wednesday, causing it to lower its prices in the key U.S. market next year.
HitGen and Merck have updated their licensing agreement to a full-fledged drug discovery collaboration in order to screen DNA-encoded libraries for new small-molecule assets.
Janssen Korea becomes yet another drugmaker to shut its Hyangnam plant in Hwaseong, South Korea, by 2021, stranding an uncounted number of employees.
After the disclosure from AstraZeneca that it’s under Justice Department scrutiny for illegally funding Iraqi terrorism, Roche and Johnson & Johnson revealed similar inquiries from the agency.
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