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ProQR to lay off 30% of staff following eye drug setback

Dive Brief: ProQR Therapeutics is overhauling its research, cutting staff and trying to find a new way forward for its lead drug after a surprising …

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delivery

Halozyme, doubling down on a licensing strategy, buys a drug delivery biotech for nearly $1B

Dive Brief: Halozyme Therapeutics, a San Diego-based company whose business revolves around a type of drug delivery technology, announced Wednesday plans to expand its offerings …

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cancer

FDA clears Gilead to restart some studies of top cancer drug

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Gilead to restart some trials testing an experimental cancer drug the company acquired in a roughly …

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Alzheimer

Medicare finalizes policy limiting coverage of Biogen Alzheimer’s drug

Medicare will not pay for Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s medicine unless prospective patients are enrolled in a clinical trial, the U.S. government said Thursday in a …

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Akebia

Akebia to lay off 42% of workforce, suspend trials after FDA drug rejection

Dive Brief: Akebia Therapeutics will lay off 42% of its workforce after the Food and Drug Administration last month rejected its most advanced experimental drug, …

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Biotech

Pfizer buys a private biotech and its RSV drug research

Dive Brief: Pfizer said Thursday it will spend as much as $525 million to buy the privately held biotech ReViral, adding experimental treatments for respiratory …

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breast

Novartis breast cancer drug approved for ultra-rare condition

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat an ultra-rare cluster of conditions caused by mutations in a specific …

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Akebia

FDA rejects Akebia drug, dealing another blow to anemia pills

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration rejected an Akebia Therapeutics’ anemia pill vadadustat, the company announced Wednesday, over concerns the drug isn’t as safe as currently …

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ALS

FDA advisers narrowly side against an experimental ALS drug, likely lowering its approval chances

By a slim margin, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration have concluded that the agency should hold off approving a closely watched, experimental medicine …

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ALS

How a long shot ALS drug came before the FDA

The drug’s beginnings, according to the two former students there to see them, were quite humble. About a decade ago, Justin Klee and Josh Cohen …

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cancer

Roche’s top immunotherapy prospect fails study in tough-to-treat lung cancer

Dive Brief: A drug combination including the Roche immunotherapy tiragolumab failed a Phase 3 trial in a tough-to-treat form of lung cancer, a setback for …

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Adagio

Adagio plans comeback for COVID drug, but is it too late?

Dive Brief: Adagio Therapeutics said it will ask the Food and Drug Administration for emergency authorization of its COVID-19 drug after announcing Wednesday that the antibody …

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Drug

Vertex plans path to FDA for top drug prospect

Dive Brief: Vertex will begin late-stage testing of one of its top drug prospects later this month, announcing on Tuesday plans for a Phase 2/3 …

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Arena

Pfizer claims study success for drug key to Arena buyout

Dive Brief: Pfizer said Wednesday an experimental drug central to its $7 billion purchase of Arena Pharmaceuticals succeeded in a crucial Phase 3 trial in …

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Drug

Novartis wins FDA OK for radiopharmaceutical drug, cashing in on Endocyte deal

Dive Brief: Novartis has won Food and Drug Administration approval to sell a radiopharmaceutical designed to treat a form of advanced prostate cancer in a …

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Analytical

How to eliminate design verification failure for your next device

If a drug delivery device fails a design verification test, the consequences can be far-reaching. If, for example, the volume of drug being delivered does …

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Biotech

Nektar, Bristol Myers drug combination fails in late-stage melanoma trial

Dive Brief: Shares in Nektar Therapeutics fell by more than half Monday morning after the San Francisco biotech company and partner Bristol Myers Squibb disclosed …

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Drug

Sanofi, with positive data in hand, to ask for approval of longer-lasting hemophilia therapy

Sanofi and its development partner, the Swedish drug company Sobi, said Wednesday they plan to submit an experimental, longer-lasting hemophilia treatment for approval now that …

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Acadia

FDA panel to review once-rejected Acadia drug for psychosis

Dive Brief: After receiving a rejection last year, Acadia said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration agreed to review its resubmitted application to expand …

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Biden

Biden discusses drug prices, mental health services in annual address

In a State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden highlighted the country’s need for quality mental health services and called for action …

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