Dicerna Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced a research collaboration and license agreement to discover and develop novel RNAi therapeutics for the treatment of chronic liver diseases. Dicerna can get up to $201 million in upfront and success-based development and commercialization milestones for an undisclosed target.
A venture capital firm in the Netherlands — backed by some big names in Big Pharma — has raised $95 million in a new fund to fuel European biotech startups.
From an analysis of more than 2,000 tumors spanning 12 types of human cancer, scientists have identified 27 new genes that could stop the disease in its tracks.
Clinical development has historically been a laborious and expensive process that stretches across all therapeutic areas. It is driven by lengthy patient recruitment timelines, increasingly complex study designs, and high procedural costs. Depending on whose data you believe, getting a new drug to market can now cost upwards of $1 billion and take more than 10 years or research and development effort. Additionally, a complex and dynamic regulatory framework has made sponsors reluctant to introduce new technologies to facilitate the development process.
Even when the flu vaccine doesn't prevent disease, it can ease some of the consequences, researchers said here.
Ddu has gradually made its way through Europe by attending the CPhI Worldwide 2017 in Frankfurt and Medica 2017 in Düsseldorf, Germany. During conversations with manufacturers, ICH was frequently mentioned. Since China was admitted as one of the regulatory members of ICH in June of last year, it was now placed at the forefront of the discussions.
AstraZeneca and Incyte Corporation are pushing forward on the development of immunotherapy combination treatments.
A new study has found that a pioneering device to repair heart valves is safe and effective, and can reduce the invasiveness and side effects of conventional mitral valve surgery.
Novartis announced results from the Phase III PARADIGMS study, investigating the safety and efficacy of fingolimod vs. interferon beta-1a, in children and adolescents (ages 10 to <18) with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS).
The U.S. Food and Drug(FDA) Administration today granted accelerated approval to Calquence (acalabrutinib) for the treatment of adults with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least one prior therapy.
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