Pfizer muscular dystrophy gene therapy stumbles on safety

Dive Brief: Pfizer's Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy improved physical function in two patients measured one year after treatment, but also led to one patient...

FDA’s Woodcock defends accelerated approvals and talks of culture shift in clinical trials

Over more than three decades at the Food and Drug Administration, Janet Woodcock has seen the biotech industry mature from the early days of biologics...

Biogen points to M&A power as Wall Street presses for less risky programs

Dive Insight: Biogen took the most severe blow in its history last month, losing more than $20 billion in market capitalization on the announcement that the...

Clovis shares slide on Rubraca trial discontinuation

Clovis' Rubraca (rucaparib) was given an accelerated approval in December 2016 for advanced and pretreated ovarian cancer. However, the Colorado-based biotech still lags behind...
Investors reacted negatively to the pushed-back readouts, sending shares of the Singapore-based biotech down nearly 20% between Tuesday's market close and Wednesday's. Wall Street analysts,...
Wave Life Sciences has joined the biopharma sector's gold rush to treat DMD, a genetic disorder that causes progressive musculoskeletal disability in boys. So far,...
AbbVie CEO Rick Gonzalez finally achieved the overseas acquisition that he sought five years ago. But his deal for Allergan comes too late to...

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Hunting productivity, drugmakers pitch new ‘pillars’ of R&D

SAN FRANCISCO — Developing new medicines isn't a resource-efficient endeavor. Estimates vary, but most molecules selected to begin clinical development won't end up on pharmacy...

Bayer backs cell therapy startup with $215M in funding

First-generation cell therapies, such as those developed by Novartis and Gilead, rely on immune cells collected from each individual patient. A painstaking manufacturing process...

Aducanumab’s failure puts pressure on field to look beyond...

The plaques are considered hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, formed in the brain from sticky clusters of a misfolded protein fragment called beta-amyloid. For the past...

Takeda takes another step into cell therapy research

Takeda, on the cusp of closing its deal to acquire Shire, is also working to ramp up its efforts in emerging fields of cancer...

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Celgene wins approval for drug key to Bristol buyout

Approval of Inrebic, which was previously known as fedratinib, is the first domino to fall in Bristol-Myers bet on Celgene's product pipeline. 

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