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...

Catalent to buy Paragon for $1.2B as gene therapy demand grows

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 Drug...

Roche cancer drug the 3rd approved for pan-tumor use

Aimed at the molecular catalysts of tumor growth, targeted therapies are treatment mainstays across a wide range of cancer types. 

Don’t worry about Humira biosimilars, the pipeline will deliver, AbbVie says

As Humira (adalimiumab) goes, so goes AbbVie. And it may require quite a few new products to replace the rheumatoid arthritis giant, which earned...
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...
Despite spending billions on R&D, big pharma doesn't punch its weight in discovering the new molecules that eventually make it to market. Instead, it's...
The U.S. opioid crisis breathed new life into clinical development of the nerve-growth factor (NGF) inhibitors tanezumab and fasinumab. The drug class had been...

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Medicare proposes raising CAR-T pay, but reimbursement solution years...

CAR-T therapies represent a significant clinical advance for patients with certain types of advanced lymphoma. In clinical testing, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel)...

Sanofi inks research deal with Denali in neurological, inflammatory...

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...

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...

MacroGenics dives as breast cancer drug shows small improvement

MacroGenics stock took a beating Tuesday, dropping far more than any other biotech on the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index as the ASCO conference closed....

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Roche cancer drug the 3rd approved for pan-tumor use

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Novo faces shareholder suit over insulin sales disclosures

Novo is best known for its insulin products like Levemir (insulin detemir) and Tresiba (insulin degludec), as well as other diabetes treatments like...

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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