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...

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. 

Pharma returns on R&D ebb to new low, Deloitte finds

Deloitte's annual report on R&D productivity, while limited in scope, is an indicator of the challenges faced by large pharmaceutical firms in bringing new...
In an era of criticism and scrutiny for biopharma companies, executives gathered at the 2019 BIO meeting have debated how the industry can push...
A filing this year for filgotinib could set up a potential market launch in 2020, which would be one to two years earlier than...
The Securities and Exchange Commission filings that Spark released Monday confirm what became apparent when the FTC announced it was subjecting the Roche buyout...

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In R&D, small biotechs hold their own against big...

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...

In a first, pharma distributor and execs face criminal...

The RDC prosecution could serve as a warning to the drug distribution industry, potentially impacting litigation against the three largest players: McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and...

AstraZeneca gets immuno-oncology win in a disease that Merck...

Dive Insight: Anytime a PD-(L)1 inhibitor can beat Keytruda (pembrolizumab) to the market in a specific type of cancer, it should be celebrated as a...

Once ‘bodies for hire,’ CROs are finding a new...

Drugmakers want better designed, less expensive clinical trials. The demand is so great that contract research providers, often called CROs, are building out their...

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