AstraZeneca gets immuno-oncology win in a disease that Merck doesn’t rule

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...

Another late-stage miss knocks Gilead from its leading NASH position

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 selonsertib...

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 got...

Safety setback for Pfizer, Lilly pain drug should have Regeneron and Teva feeling nervous

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...
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...
Biopharma companies wanting to treat rare diseases are increasingly pressed to be invested in gene therapy. Novartis and Roche have recognized this with their...
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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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...

Lilly bets on AC Immune’s tech to target Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer's drug development is notoriously difficult, exemplified by the fact there are no therapies approved to treat the underlying disease. That's not for a lack...

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...

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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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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