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...

Pfizer, Novartis partner in hunt to find drugs for NASH

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

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...

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. 
Aimed at the molecular catalysts of tumor growth, targeted therapies are treatment mainstays across a wide range of cancer types. 
Lartruvo (olaratumab) was the first new drug approved for soft tissue sarcoma in more than four decades, at the time offering patients with the...
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...

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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...

Intra-Cellular’s depression drug goes 1 for 2 in Phase...

Intra-Cellular's success and failure demonstrate the difficulty of developing psychiatric drugs. Unqualified clinical success in depression is particularly challenging, as high placebo responses can...

Amgen bone drug application knocked back in Europe

Expectations for Evenity (romosozumab) are modest, and the rejection by the EMA is a "minor setback" for Amgen, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst...

Array gets a win in colorectal cancer

Array's combination of Braftovi (encorafenib) and Mektovi (binimetinib) already appears well received in the small clinical setting of advanced melanoma with BRAF V600E or...

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Celgene wins approval for drug key to Bristol buyout

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