Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized the treatment of advanced malignancies. By blocking T-cell inhibition these drugs result in immune targeting of tumor cells and normal tissue. As such, their main toxicity is inducing immune-mediated tissue damage.
Sanofi will launch public offers to acquire all shares, including ADSs, warrants and convertible bonds of Ablynx. News of the deal will no doubt come as a great disappointment to Novo Nordisk, which recently stepped up its efforts to buy Ablynx with a second offer valued at around 2.6 billion euros.
GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK,GSK.L) said that the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use or CHMP has issued a positive opinion recommending marketing authorisation for Shingrix (RELATED: CDC backs GSK’s Shingrix over Merck & Co’s Zostavax) for the prevention of shingles, or herpes zoster, and post-herpetic neuralgia or PHN
Edinburgh, Scotland based Synpromics has teamed up with UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health to develop novel gene therapies for diseases affecting the haematopoietic system.
Spark Therapeutics (ONCE), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, today announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize investigational voretigene neparvovec outside the U.S.
With opioid-overdose deaths skyrocketing as 2017 comes to a close, York County is suing more than two dozen drug companies that "have intentionally misled the public about the dangers of opioids."
Celgene agreed on Monday to buy the rest of Juno Therapeutics it doesn't already own for about $9 billion in cash to gain access to Juno's pipeline of CAR-T cancer drugs.
Adlai Nortye Biopharma Co., Ltd. (NEEQ: 870946) ("Adlai Nortye" or "the Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovery and commercialization of new and effective drugs, announced today that it had entered into a Global Licensing Agreement ("the Agreement") with Eisai Co., Ltd. ("Eisai"), a global pharmaceutical company with a focus on serving patients with unmet medical needs.
UAlberta researchers created a new synthetic virus that could lead to the development of a more effective vaccine against smallpox. The discovery demonstrates how techniques based on the use of synthetic DNA can be used to advance public health measures.
Food allergy has been referred to as the second wave of the allergy epidemic, asthma being the first.
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