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Daiichi acquires another ADC drug through Glycotope licensing deal

Daiichi Sankyo is bringing a seventh antibody-drug conjugate, or ADC, into its pipeline through a licensing agreement with German biotech Glycotope. Specific financials weren’t disclosed, …

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Allergan

Allergan’s eye drug stacks up against Lucentis, but wider market still iffy

Allergan on Thursday touted data from two late-stage trials that showed a drug it in-licensed from a Swiss biotech proved non-inferior to Lucentis in the …

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Merck inks deal with China’s Xian Janssen for type 2 diabetes drug

China has more than 114 million people living with diabetes, the largest number of any country in the world Global drug giant, Merck signed an …

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Drug, device companies gave docs, hospitals $8.4B in 2017

Doctors and teaching hospitals received $8.4 billion from drug and device companies in 2017, according to the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open …

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cancer

Half of orphan drug sales to come from cancer, Evaluate finds

Oncology already sits as the top-selling therapeutic area on the orphan drug market, but a new report predicts it to account for even more — …

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Amgen

Amgen, Novartis’ closely watched migraine drug approved

Amgen and Novartis on Thursday secured Food and Drug Administration approval for Aimovig, the first regulatory thumbs up for a new class of migraine treatments …

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United Therapeutics nabs competing PAH drug with $216M SteadyMed buy

Brief: United Therapeutics announced Monday morning that it will acquire competitor SteadyMed for $4.46 per share in cash upfront and another $2.63 per share in …

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AACR

AACR 2018: GamaMabs Pharma to present new data on expression of Anti-Müllerian Hormone type II Receptor in non-gynecological cancers and on first ADC candidate targeting AMHRII

AMHRII expression and Antibody-Drug Conjugate preclinical data suggest potential broader applications for anti-AMHRII-based therapy GamaMabs Pharma, a biotechnology company developing optimized therapeutic antibodies targeting AMHRII …

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