IMDYLLTRA® is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) with disease progression on or after at least two prior lines of therapy, including platinum-based chemotherapy1 Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK, with more than 49,000 cases diagnosed in the UK between 2017 and 20192 Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for approximately 15% of all lung cancers3 In the Phase 2 DeLLphi-301 study, involving... Read more
Opdivo Qvantig is the first and only subcutaneously administered PD-1 inhibitor1 Given over three- to five-minutes, Opdivo Qvantig demonstrated consistent efficacy and showed a comparable safety profile to intravenous Opdivo in the Phase 3 CheckMate-67T trial1,3 PRINCETON, N.J. / Dec 27, 2024 / Business Wire / Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for Opdivo Qvantig™ (nivolumab and hyalu... Read more
New indication based on results from a global Phase 3 trial demonstrating TEVIMBRA plus chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival for patients with advanced gastric cancers Second FDA approval for TEVIMBRA in 2024 SAN MATEO, Calif. / Dec 27, 2024 / Business Wire / BeiGene, Ltd. (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company that intends to change its name to BeOne Medicines Ltd., today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... Read more
HYQVIA [Immune Globulin Infusion 10% (Human) with Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase] is the First and Only Facilitated Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin (fSCIG) Approved in Japan for Agammaglobulinemia and Hypogammaglobulinemia Administration of Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase Prior to Immunoglobulin Facilitates Subcutaneous Infusion of Larger Volumes, Potentially Reducing Frequency and Giving Patients More Flexibility Approval Expands Takeda’s Portfolio of Differentiated... Read more
POETYK PsA-1 and POETYK PsA-2 trials met primary endpoint, with significantly greater proportion of Sotyktu-treated patients achieving ACR20 response compared with placebo at Week 16 Sotyktu was well-tolerated and demonstrated safety consistent with established profile PRINCETON, N.J. / Dec 23, 2024 / Business Wire / Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced results from POETYK PsA-1 (IM011-054) and POETYK PsA-2 (IM011-055), the pivotal Phase 3 trials evaluating... Read more
BRAFTOVI in combination with cetuximab and mFOLFOX6 is the first and only combination regimen with targeted therapy approved for use as early as first-line for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF V600E mutation Accelerated approval is based on 61% overall response rate compared to 40% in control arm in the Phase 3 BREAKWATER trial NEW YORK / Dec 20, 2024 / Business Wire / Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Read more
Bagsværd, Denmark, 20 December 2024 – Novo Nordisk today announced headline results from REDEFINE 1, a phase 3 trial in the global REDEFINE programme. REDEFINE 1 is a 68-week efficacy and safety trial investigating subcutaneous CagriSema (a fixed dose combination of cagrilintide 2.4 mg and semaglutide 2.4 mg) compared to the individual components cagrilintide 2.4 mg, semaglutide 2.4 mg and placebo, all administered once-weekly. The trial included 3,417 randomised... Read more
Averaging up to 20% of weight loss, adults taking Zepbound had at least 25 fewer breathing interruptions each hour as they slept Up to 50% of adults taking Zepbound no longer had symptoms associated with OSA after one year INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zepbound® (tirzepatide) as the first and only prescription medicine for adults with moder... Read more
ALYFTREK™ is approved for patients 6 years and older with at least one responsive mutation, including 31 additional mutations not responsive to other CFTR modulator therapies In head-to-head clinical trials, ALYFTREK was non-inferior on ppFEV1 and further decreased sweat chloride compared to TRIKAFTA® BOSTON / Dec 20, 2024 / Business Wire / Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved... Read more
Approximately 300 more people with cystic fibrosis in the U.S. are now eligible for a medicine that treats the underlying cause of their disease for the first time BOSTON / Dec 20, 2024 / Business Wire / Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expanded use of TRIKAFTA® (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) for the treatment of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) ages 2 and... Read more
CRENESSITY, a First-in-Class Treatment for Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), is now commercially available in the U.S. CAH-trained pharmacists are available 24/7 to support patients with prescriptions exclusively through PANTHERx Rare, a specialty pharmacy Neurocrine Access Support is available to provide free, comprehensive access and support information to patients, caregivers and healthcare providers SAN DIEGO, Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurocrine... Read more
RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 20, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced the closing of the exclusive global license agreement for LM-299, a novel investigational PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody, from LaNova Medicines Ltd. As previously announced, Merck will develop, manufacture and commercialize LM-299. Merck will record a pre-tax charge relating to the upfront payment of $588 million, or approximately $0.18 per... Read more
Investigational REGN7508 (catalytic domain) and REGN9933 (A2 domain) are being evaluated for their potential to control thrombosis while minimizing bleeding risk in a variety of patient populations and clinical settings Evaluated against current standards of care, single doses of REGN7508 and REGN9933 administered 12 to 24 hours after total knee replacement demonstrated robust antithrombotic effects Phase 3 program to be initiated in 2025 TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Dec. 19,... Read more
Trials met efficacy success criteria for non-inferiority of DOR/ISL to comparator antiretroviral therapies in adults with virologically suppressed HIV-1 Safety profiles were generally comparable between DOR/ISL and other therapies in these trials RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 19, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced topline results from two pivotal Phase 3 trials of the investigational, once-daily, oral,... Read more
Treatment with the highly selective NaV1.8 pain signal inhibitor suzetrigine met the primary endpoint with a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 2.02 point within-group reduction from baseline in the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) Placebo arm showed similar within-group reduction in NPRS Suzetrigine was generally well tolerated Advancement to Phase 3 in painful lumbosacral radiculopathy planned, pending discussions with regulators... Read more
PADOVA study showed numerical delay in motor progression and positive trends on multiple secondary and exploratory endpoints Prasinezumab continues to be well tolerated and no new safety signals were observed Genentech is further evaluating the data and will work together with health authorities to determine next steps SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. / Dec 19, 2024 / Business Wire / Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced... Read more
RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 18, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive global license agreement for HS-10535, an investigational preclinical oral small molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist. “We continue to leverage science-driven business development to augment and complement our robust pipeline,” said Dr. Dean Y.... Read more
The agreement is a critical step in ensuring paediatric patients living with NF1 PN have public access to Koselugo, the only approved therapy in Canada for this rare disease MISSISSAUGA, ON, Dec. 18, 2024 /CNW/ - Alexion Pharma Canada Corp., AstraZeneca's Rare Disease group, has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) for Koselugo for the treatment of paediatric patients aged two years and above with... Read more
Sarepta anticipates filing for accelerated approval of SRP-9003 in 2025 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. / Dec 18, 2024 / Business Wire / Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), the leader in precision genetic medicine for rare diseases, today announced that enrollment and dosing is complete in EMERGENE (Study SRP-9003-301), a Phase 3 clinical trial of SRP-9003 (bidridistrogene xeboparvovec). SRP-9003 is an investigational gene therapy for the treatment of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy... Read more
Biomarker data from CARE study characterizing cenerimod's mechanism of action in systemic lupus erythematosus also published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ: VTRS) today announced the publication of Phase 2b CARE study results evaluating the efficacy and safety of cenerimod in adults with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The results, published in Lancet Rheumatologyi,... Read more
Full-Year 2025 Revenue Guidance(1) Range of $61.0 to $64.0 Billion Full-Year 2025 Adjusted(2) Diluted EPS Guidance Range of $2.80 to $3.00 Expect Full-Year 2025 Adjusted(2) Diluted EPS Operational(3) Growth of 10% to 18% from the Midpoint of 2024 Guidance After Adjusting for 2024 Non-Recurring Items(4) Achieved Goal of $4.0 Billion in Net Cost Savings Through 2024 and Anticipate an Additional $500 Million in Savings in 2025 from Ongoing Cost Realignment Program First... Read more
China is the fourth major market where Kisunla has received approval Kisunla was first approved in the United States in July 2024, approved in Japan in September 2024 and then in Great Britain in October 2024 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China has approved Kisunla™ (donanemab-azbt, 350 mg/20 mL every four... Read more
FOSTER CITY, Calif. / Dec 17, 2024 / Business Wire / Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Trodelvy® (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for the treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. The Breakthrough Therapy Designation is based on results from the global... Read more
Primary endpoints met in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), the most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Primary endpoint results in UC and CD for high dose represent the highest achieved with any TL1A monoclonal antibody Sanofi and Teva plan to initiate Phase 3 development in IBD, pending regulatory discussions PARSIPPANY, N.J. and PARIS, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teva Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. affiliate of Teva Pharmaceutical... Read more
The first living recipient of a UKidney™ is recovering after a successful transplant This transplant builds on two successful UHeart™ transplants completed in 2022 and 2023 and a successful UThymoKidney™ transplant in 2024 SILVER SPRING, Md. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. / Dec 17, 2024 / Business Wire / United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR), a public benefit corporation, today announced the world’s first transplant of a UKidney, which it produced,... Read more
Gilead and Terray Will Leverage Terray’s tNova Drug Discovery Platform to Identify Small Molecule Therapeutics Against Targets of Interest Gilead Has Exclusive Option to Develop and Commercialize Products from the Collaboration FOSTER CITY, Calif. & LOS ANGELES / Dec 17, 2024 / Business Wire / Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) and Terray Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration to discover... Read more
EYLEA HD demonstrated non-inferior vision gains with an every 8-week dosing regimen compared to EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection 2 mg dosed every 4 weeks Safety data remains consistent with the known EYLEA HD and EYLEA safety profiles Supplementary biologics license application planned for submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the first quarter of 2025 TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN)... Read more
If approved, clesrovimab has the potential to be available to help address the burden of RSV disease in the U.S. in time for the 2025-26 season RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 17, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for clesrovimab (MK-1654), the company’s investigational prophylactic long-acting monoclonal... Read more
This milestone stems from the companies' collaboration to expand access to affordable insulin to one million people living with diabetes in low- to middle-income countries annually by 2030 INDIANAPOLIS and CAIRO, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Egyptian Drug Authority approved the insulin glargine injection manufactured by EVA Pharma through a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY). Launched in 2022, the collaboration aims to deliver... Read more
RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 16, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced the discontinuation of the clinical development programs for vibostolimab, an anti-TIGIT antibody, and favezelimab, an anti-LAG-3 antibody. Vibostolimab is being evaluated as an investigational fixed-dose combination with pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®) in the KeyVibe program. Favezelimab is being evaluated as an investigational fixed-dose combination... Read more
Bagsværd, Denmark, 16 December 2024 – Today, Novo Nordisk announced plans to invest 8.5 billion Danish kroner to establish a completely new production facility in Odense, Denmark. The investment marks the first time in this century that Novo Nordisk breaks ground in Denmark by establishing a new production site. The new site will feature a state-of-the-art finished production facility and warehouse spanning over 40,000 m2. Designed to be modular and flexible,... Read more
This approval marks the fourth non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) indication and the first indication in earlier stages of NSCLC for KEYTRUDA in China RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 16, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China in combination with platinum-containing chemotherapy as neoadjuvant... Read more
Transaction Expected to Close in the Coming Days SOMERSET, N.J. & COPENHAGEN, Denmark / Dec 14, 2024 / Business Wire / Catalent, Inc. (“Catalent,” NYSE: CTLT), a leader in enabling the development and supply of better treatments for patients worldwide, and Novo Holdings A/S (“Novo Holdings”), a global life sciences investment firm, today announced that the companies have fulfilled all regulatory closing conditions for their pending transaction. The companies... Read more
CRENESSITY, the first new treatment available in 70 years to the classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) community, offers a paradigm-shifting treatment approach FDA approval supported by data from the largest-ever clinical trial program in pediatric and adult patients with classic CAH CRENESSITY is expected to be commercially available in approximately one week Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher granted in connection with approval SAN DIEGO, Dec.... Read more
Proposed acquisition adds Nimble's lead asset, an investigational oral peptide IL23R inhibitor in preclinical development for psoriasis, and a pipeline of other novel oral peptide assets across autoimmune diseases where significant unmet needs remain Acquisition also allows AbbVie to utilize Nimble's proprietary peptide synthesis platform to enable the discovery and optimization of oral peptide therapeutics NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. and MADISON, Wis., Dec. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/... Read more
The Phase 3 VIVID-1 trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of Omvoh in patients with or without prior biologic failure and was the basis for the positive opinion VIVID-1 was the first pivotal Crohn's disease trial to show benefits in hard-to-treat symptom of bowel urgency using a patient-centric scale Omvoh will be the first treatment for Crohn's disease with results demonstrating improvements of histologic measures of inflammation included in its label, if... Read more
If approved, WELIREG would be the first and only oral hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2α) inhibitor available for these patients in the European Union Positive opinion granted based on data from the Phase 2 LITESPARK-004 trial and the Phase 3 LITESPARK-005 trial RAHWAY, N.J. / Dec 13, 2024 / Business Wire / Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products... Read more
Recommendation Based on the RESPONSE Study Which Demonstrated ALP Normalization in 25% of Participants at 12 Months and Statistically Significant Reduction of Pruritus Versus Placebo If Approved by the European Commission, Seladelpar Would Provide an Important Treatment Option for People Living with the Rare Liver Disease in the EU FOSTER CITY, Calif. / Dec 13, 2024 / Business Wire / Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal... Read more
SAN MATEO, Calif. / Dec 12, 2024 / Business Wire / BeiGene, Ltd. (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company that intends to change its name to BeOne Medicines Ltd., today announced it has entered into a global licensing agreement with CSPC Zhongqi Pharmaceutical Technology (Shijiazhuang) Co., Ltd. (“CSPC”) for SYH2039, a novel methionine adenosyltransferase 2A (MAT2A)-inhibitor being explored for solid tumors. SYH2039 targets solid tumors that... Read more
Bagsværd, Denmark, 12 December 2024 – Novo Nordisk today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an update of the Ozempic® (once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide) label to reflect data from the FLOW kidney outcomes trial. The FLOW trial assessed the risk reduction from Ozempic® therapy in chronic kidney disease-related events, including persistent ≥50%... Read more
IBRANCE is the first CDK4/6 inhibitor to show benefit in a large Phase 3 trial in first-line HR+, HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, in combination with anti-HER2 and endocrine therapy NEW YORK / Dec 12, 2024 / Business Wire / Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC (AFT) today announced results from the Phase 3 PATINA trial demonstrating that the addition of IBRANCE® (palbociclib) to current standard-of-care first-line maintenance therapy (following... Read more
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the research and clinical diagnostic communities today announced a partnership with MedSanTek. Under the agreement, MedSanTek becomes the distributor of Bio-Techne's R&D Systems, Novus, Tocris, Protein Simple, Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD), and Asuragen brands across Turkey. Founded in the late 2000s,... Read more
87.5% of patients treated with LYNPARZA were alive at six years vs. 83.2% in the comparator arm First and only PARP inhibitor to improve survival in early breast cancer WILMINGTON, Del. / Dec 11, 2024 / Business Wire / Updated results from the OlympiA Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc’s, known as MSD outside of the US and Canada, LYNPARZA® (olaparib) demonstrated sustained, clinically meaningful improvements in overall survival (OS), invasive... Read more
As monotherapy, imlunestrant significantly reduced the risk of progression or death by 38% compared to standard endocrine therapy (ET) in patients with ESR1 mutations As combination therapy, imlunestrant plus Verzenio significantly reduced the risk of progression or death by 43%, compared to imlunestrant alone, in all patients, regardless of ESR1 mutation status These data were published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine and will be... Read more
The pivotal Phase 3 inMIND trial met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) and key secondary endpoints in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) treated with tafasitamab (Monjuvi®) in combination with lenalidomide and rituximab Positive data featured in a late-breaking oral presentation at the 2024 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting support the planned U.S. filing of a supplemental Biologics License Application... Read more
5-year follow-up from SEQUOIA study demonstrated treatment with BRUKINSA reduced the risk of progression or death by 71% compared to bendamustine-rituximab in patients with treatment-naïve CLL, further solidifying its position as the leader in new patient starts in both frontline and relapsed/refractory (R/R) CLL with the broadest label of any BTK inhibitor At a median follow-up of 1.5 years, promising data from the 320 mg expansion cohort of phase 1/1b study shows no... Read more
Long-term data confirm fixed-duration Columvi and Lunsumio achieve durable remissions beyond the end of treatment, with real-world data suggesting reduced treatment-related travel burden due to less frequent dosing First presentation of Lunsumio given subcutaneously showed non-inferiority to intravenous treatment with a consistent safety profile, potentially providing an additional outpatient option with a shorter administration time Positive results for Genentech’s... Read more
89 percent of patients evaluable for MRD assessment were MRD negative, with the majority reaching MRD negativity in less than 2 months Results add to the overall survival (OS) benefits recently presented, as the first and only cell therapy to significantly extend OS versus standard therapies in multiple myeloma SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) announced today new results from the Phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 study that show... Read more
Results from BRUIN CLL-321 show Lilly's pirtobrutinib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 46% compared to idelalisib plus rituximab or bendamustine plus rituximab Pirtobrutinib prolonged the time to next treatment or death by a median of 23.9 months compared to 10.9 months in the control arm BRUIN CLL-321 is the first randomized Phase 3 study in CLL ever conducted exclusively in patients previously treated with a BTK inhibitor INDIANAPOLIS, Dec.... Read more
ZUMA-5 Analysis Shows Median Progression-Free Survival of 62.2 Months and Median Duration of Response of 60.4 Months After Median Follow-Up of More Than Five Years Over Half of Patients Alive at Time of Analysis, with No Need for Subsequent Therapy and Rare Instances of Late Disease Progression, Indicating Curative Potential SANTA MONICA, Calif. / Dec 09, 2024 / Business Wire / Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), today announced results from a five-year follow-up... Read more
