AstraZeneca inks ambitious $6.9B deal for Daiichi cancer therapy

Long known for its prowess in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, AstraZeneca has joined its pharmaceutical peers in making a bigger play in oncology. While the...

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...

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 then...

R&D leaders worry pharma reputation risks losing talent

PHILADELPHIA — It's not artificial intelligence or creative corporate structures that some of the biopharma industry's leaders see as the best way to boost...
As Humira (adalimiumab) goes, so goes AbbVie. And it may require quite a few new products to replace the rheumatoid arthritis giant, which earned...
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...
By most measures, Novartis enjoyed a positive start to 2019. Drug sales rose by 5% in dollar terms, lifted by strong performances from the Swiss...

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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...

FDA’s Woodcock defends accelerated approvals and talks of culture...

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

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...

3 takeaways from cancer’s biggest conference

The cancer field's largest conference has come and gone, and with it a window into the thousands of clinical trials being run in hopes...

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