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Featured Story | | | Thursday, June 8, 2017 After a fairly disappointing ASCO, Roche is axing work on IDO medication indoximod and handing back the rights to partner NewLink Genetics. |
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Thursday, June 8, 2017 Actelion has posted mixed late-phase data on its antibiotic cadazolid. The drug, which Johnson & Johnson is set to acquire in its $30 billion (€27 billion) takeover of Actelion, failed to match an old antibiotic in one study despite holding its own in another identical trial. Thursday, June 8, 2017 Following a major reorganization earlier this year that saw it sell off its marketed med and revert back to being a clinical-stage biotech, Merrimack is making major changes in its executive team, announcing today that former Ariad chief medical officer Sergio Santillana, M.D., will be its new medical lead. Monday, June 5, 2017 As the technology landscape of clinical trials evolves, apps are engaging patients in new ways and in real time, thus becoming an integral part of the healthcare infrastructure. Thursday, June 8, 2017 Eli Lilly is paying $55 million upfront for the rights to KeyBioscience’s pipeline of treatments for Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic conditions. The agreement gives Lilly the global rights to phase 2 synthetic peptide dual amylin and calcitonin receptor agonist KBP-042 and other programs. Wednesday, June 7, 2017 Medtronic’s hybrid closed-loop system, the world’s first “artificial pancreas,” is hitting the U.S. market. The system is the only FDA-approved insulin pump that automatically delivers basal insulin to control blood glucose levels in people with Type 1 diabetes. Thursday, June 8, 2017 Formulary exclusions, pricing, biosimilars and cardiovascular outcomes data have impacted the U.S. diabetes space. We’ve compiled last year’s U.S. sales rankings for you, along with some insight into what to expect for each of the top meds going forward. Thursday, June 8, 2017 Israeli generics giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has chewed up three CEOs in just five years, as the company grappled with pricing pressure, declining sales growth, disappointing acquisitions and bribery investigations. Now the company says it not only wants an outsider chief, but a seasoned pharma CEO to take its helm. | | | RNAi company Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has taken on industry vet and ex-Summit Therapeutic's CMO Ralf Rosskamp, M.D., as its new chief medical officer, working on clinical development, medical affairs and regulatory functions. Release Sophiris Bio has dosed the first patient in its midstage test to assess the safety and tolerability of topsalysin in treating men with prostate cancer. Statement Cancer biopharma CytRx Corporation says it has posted an update on the regulatory pathway for an NDA submission for its aldoxorubicin in soft tissue sarcomas. Release | |
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