Biogen’s lupus bet pays off with phase 3 hit

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Sep 24, 2024

Novartis inks $1B-plus biobucks deal with Flagship's Generate


Months after Frank Nestle’s departure, Sanofi selects new CSO 


Biogen, UCB report phase 3 lupus win, justifying risky bet on asset that failed earlier trial


Metsera links long-acting GLP-1 shot to 7.5% weight loss at 36 days, mulls monthly dosing


Wave surfs DMD success to regulators’ doors, sending stock up


FDA issues draft guidance to help industry conduct global cancer clinical trials


Italian biotech Aptadir hopes new class of RNA inhibitors can reverse tricky cancers


Black Diamond, Ideaya entertain registrational trial ideas as cancer drugs show midstage promise 

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Novartis inks $1B-plus biobucks deal with Flagship's Generate

Novartis has inked a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion with Flagship-founded Generate:Biomedicines to develop protein therapeutics across multiple indications.
 

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Months after Frank Nestle’s departure, Sanofi selects new CSO

After a few years in biotech, Mike Quigley, Ph.D., is returning to the pharma fold, taking up the top science spot at Sanofi.

Biogen, UCB report phase 3 lupus win, justifying risky bet on asset that failed earlier trial

Biogen and UCB’s gamble on advancing into phase 3 on the back of a failed study looks to have paid off, with the partners reporting positive top-line results in systemic lupus erythematosus and outlining plans to start a second pivotal trial.

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Metsera links long-acting GLP-1 shot to 7.5% weight loss at 36 days, mulls monthly dosing

While the biotech has yet to unveil a more detailed data set, the injection, dubbed MET-097, was tied to “significant and durable” weight loss.

Wave surfs DMD success to regulators' doors, sending stock up

Wave Life Sciences has met its goal in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy study, positioning it to talk to regulators about accelerated approval while continuing to track patients through to the completion of the trial.

FDA issues draft guidance to help industry conduct global cancer clinical trials

To help clinical trial sponsors who are planning global cancer trials best position themselves for FDA approval, the agency has released draft guidance for conducting multiregional clinical trials in oncology. Once finalized, the guidance will provide recommendations for how industry can use data from global trials to support FDA approval in the U.S.

Italian biotech Aptadir hopes new class of RNA inhibitors can reverse tricky cancers

Italian biotech Aptadir Therapeutics has launched with the promise that its pipeline of preclinical RNA inhibitors could crack intractable cancers.

Black Diamond, Ideaya entertain registrational trial ideas as cancer drugs show midstage promise

Black Diamond Therapeutics and Ideaya Biosciences are mulling over registrational trials for their lead assets after receiving encouraging phase 2 data in lung and eye cancers, respectively.

Bluebird bio lays off 25% of workforce as gene therapy pioneer struggles to stay afloat

After bluebird bio acknowledged troubles keeping its business operational, the gene therapy biotech is launching a restructuring that will reduce the size of its workforce by about 25%, or nearly 100 employees.

Novo Nordisk CEO prepares to defend Ozempic, Wegovy US pricing at Senate hearing

Ahead of a hearing on Ozempic and Wegovy prices, prepared remarks from Novo CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen shine a light on the larger U.S. healthcare system.

Legend Biotech inks deal for 'priority access' to Multiply Labs' robotic cell therapy production tech

After several years spent building partnerships to hone its robotic cell therapy manufacturing system, Multiply Labs has snared its first collaboration with a major cell therapy developer: Legend Biotech.

AGC Biologics telegraphs layoffs, winds down production operations at Colorado plant

As part of the new restructuring push, AGC will lay off 68 employees at its cell and gene therapy plant in Longmont, Colorado, 17 employees at its commercial mammalian plant in Boulder, Colorado, and 10 employees in Bothell, Washington, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification alert.
 
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