FTC demands could mean months-long delay for Roche-Spark deal

Roche's $4.8 billion takeout of gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics looked like a typical biopharma transaction — that is, until the Federal Trade Commission...

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 announced...

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...

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...
Gilead is part of a small group of drugmakers with late-stage NASH assets. But misfires in the STELLAR program have dimmed the prospects of...
Bluebird declined to release the Zynteglo price when the agent received European Commission conditional approval last week. The price announcement Friday coincided with a...
Known for its work in the field of messenger RNA therapeutics, BioNTech is looking for new ways to grow. Earlier this month, the private...

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Sarepta may have seen off another rival in Wave

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,...

Pfizer, Novartis partner in hunt to find drugs for...

Neither Pfizer or Novartis are among the handful of companies at the leading edge of NASH drug development, which has yet to advance a...

Bluebird sets $1.8M price tag for blood-disease gene therapy

Bluebird declined to release the Zynteglo price when the agent received European Commission conditional approval last week. The price announcement Friday coincided with a...

AbbVie deal for Allergan not about the taxes, thanks...

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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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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