Amgen invests $66M in genetic sequencing company Oxford Nanopore

Dive Insight: While California sequencing company Illumina is larger, Oxford's kept itself relevant and recently attracted new cash to fund an expansion. Amgen's seen the sequencing...

Lilly to withdraw FDA-approved cancer drug after clinical failure

Lartruvo (olaratumab) was the first new drug approved for soft tissue sarcoma in more than four decades, at the time offering patients with the tough-to-treat...

Sanofi inks research deal with Denali in neurological, inflammatory diseases

Denali started 2018 with one research agreement with Takeda and is now ending the year with another big pharma collaboration. The Takeda deal, announced in January,...

Gilead firms up path to market for key arthritis drug

A filing this year for filgotinib could set up a potential market launch in 2020, which would be one to two years earlier than...
"It could become very challenging for a small biotech company, or even a pharma company, to cover that part of a clinical trial test,"...
In an era of criticism and scrutiny for biopharma companies, executives gathered at the 2019 BIO meeting have debated how the industry can push...
CHICAGO — Decades of research have failed to uncover a therapeutic answer to one of the most well-known genetic drivers of cancer. Yet Amgen...

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Early cancer drug data give Amgen hope it has...

CHICAGO — Decades of research have failed to uncover a therapeutic answer to one of the most well-known genetic drivers of cancer. Yet Amgen...

AstraZeneca gets immuno-oncology win in a disease that Merck...

Dive Insight: Anytime a PD-(L)1 inhibitor can beat Keytruda (pembrolizumab) to the market in a specific type of cancer, it should be celebrated as a...

Catalent to buy Paragon for $1.2B as gene therapy...

Biologics have been a business boon to contract manufacturers, Catalent included. Large-molecule drugs are such a focus, in fact, that last year Catalent split its...

J&J invests in integrin therapies via Morphic deal

Four months after Morphic reached an R&D deal with AbbVie, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based biotech has found another drugmaking giant to partner with. Morphic and AbbVie...

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