Biotech: Page 12


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    Q&A

    How a biotech exec is leveraging Big Pharma lessons to advance tRNA

    Michelle Werner shares how the lessons from her resume — and personal experience — are driving her work with novel therapeutics.

    By Amy Baxter • April 29, 2024
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    Neuroscience has entered a new era. Now it’s time for a ‘moonshot’ approach.

    Dr. Jeremy Levin, CEO of Ovid Therapeutics, explains how scientific advances have converged to create a new era of drug development potential.

    By April 26, 2024
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    Oncology R&D

    Cancer research remains a prime focus for the industry and often leads to pharma’s most impactful breakthroughs.   

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    Biogen: Don’t expect any big acquisitions this year

    While the company is eager to diversify, CEO Chris Viehbacher said that in the near-term any dealmaking would likely focus on collaborations and early-stage assets.

    By Jacob Bell • April 24, 2024
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    Q&A

    AbbVie and Regenxbio’s ‘multibillion-dollar opportunity’ in vision loss gene therapy

    After a successful mid-stage study, the companies aim to upend traditional wet AMD treatments with a one-time gene therapy.

    By Amy Baxter • April 24, 2024
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    Vistagen’s on-demand nasal spray could provide a novel option for social anxiety

    The fast-acting medication is one of a few new approaches being tested for the crippling condition.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • April 22, 2024
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    WuXi partnerships at risk as lawmakers target Chinese ties to biopharma

    Why the legislation could throw a wrench into the supply chain for advanced therapies and how the industry has responded.

    By Amy Baxter • April 22, 2024
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    Behind the ‘encouraging’ new results for Amylyx’s beleaguered drug

    Where Amylyx ultimately failed in ALS, it could prevail in a rare disease. The doctor leading this research explains why.

    By April 19, 2024
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    Roivant spinoff tackles growing complexity of clinical trials

    As precision medicine booms, all trials are starting to look like rare disease trials, the company said.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • April 18, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    Ukraine was pharma’s ‘darling’ of clinical trials. As war drags on, will the industry come back?

    New clinical trial starts are picking back up, but are still far below their bustling pre-war level. 

    By April 16, 2024
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    Biotech Spotlight

    Traditional gene therapies are uber-niche. Ocugen hopes to change that.

    The biotech is developing a ‘gene-agnostic’ approach to expand the patient pool for gene therapies.

    By Alexandra Pecci • April 15, 2024
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    3 big recent trial flops

    How these clinical setbacks impacted the companies, industry and patients.

    By April 12, 2024
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    Q&A

    How pharma’s surging M&A is impacting the industry’s tech sector

    As dealmaking in biopharma picks up, the CEO of eClinical Solutions sees an opportunity for clinical software companies to make acquisitions easier to close.

    By April 11, 2024
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    Biotech Spotlight

    What’s old is new: The revival of a one-time radiotherapy cancer treatment

    TAE Life Sciences is bringing radiation-based cancer therapy to clinical trials globally in the coming years.

    By Amy Baxter • April 10, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    Psychiatry drugs finally have pharma’s attention. Can they keep it?

    Recent biotech company acquisitions have put emerging schizophrenia treatments in focus. But many development hurdles still stand in the way of new medicines for the brain.

    By Jacob Bell • April 10, 2024
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    Biosimilar uptake appears to finally be on the upswing, and Biocon Biologics is betting on the sector’s future

    Biosimilars promise market competition for branded biologics, which in theory could drive down prices. But so far, winning market share has been a struggle.

    By April 9, 2024
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    Viral return: 3 U.S. cases concerning experts

    Infectious diseases that were “off the playing field” are now making a comeback.  

    By April 5, 2024
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    Q&A // First 90 Days

    With an ovarian KRAS combo ready for review, Verastem’s CEO is poised for the transition

    As its FDA filing approaches, Verastem Oncology CEO Daniel Paterson wants to go from “The Little Engine That Could” to a major oncology player.

    By April 4, 2024
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    As antimicrobial resistance looms large, a nonprofit teams up with Big Pharma to intervene

    AMR is a growing threat, but with little financial incentive to pick up the torch, government and nonprofit collaborations are keeping the R&D flames burning.

    By Amy Baxter • April 3, 2024
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    A dementia-focused VC digs past anti-amyloid for neuroscience diamonds in the rough

    Even as new drugs like Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi make a splash in Alzheimer’s, VCs like the Dementia Discovery Fund have invested in the next wave of therapies.

    By April 2, 2024
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    With a rise in animal-human organ transplants, a drugmaker aims for a new standard of care

    Eledon Pharmaceuticals is developing a drug that could facilitate organ transplants from animals to humans as the procedure gains steam.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • April 1, 2024
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    To penetrate crowded GLP-1 field, Rivus Pharma is taking a metabolic approach

    Rivus’ controlled metabolic accelerators are an emerging new potential competitor to popular weight loss and diabetes drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.

    By Amy Baxter • March 29, 2024
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    ‘The heart is back,’ says Cardior CEO — Novo’s $1B+ deal rejuvenates a stale field

    Novo Nordisk’s acquisition of Cardior Pharmaceuticals is a bet on new approaches to cardiovascular disease, says Cardior CEO Claudia Ulbrich.

    By March 28, 2024
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    Biotech veteran Art Krieg postpones retirement to build an unorthodox drug startup

    With Zola Therapeutics, Krieg plans to design and sell a series of cancer immunotherapies without the help of outside investors, he told BioPharma Dive.

    By Ben Fidler • March 28, 2024
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    Alnylam turns to genealogy to find rare disease patients through family trees

    A vastly underdiagnosed rare disease presents a challenge to Alnylam’s commercial team, but a family health road trip has patients talking about their hereditary risk.

    By March 26, 2024
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    Q&A

    SQZ, Portal founder Armon Sharei on starting over in biotech

    After his first biotech startup was sold off in parts, Sharei is applying the lessons he’s learned to a new company with a different business model.

    By Gwendolyn Wu • March 26, 2024