"Patient advocacy groups should be in the business of advocating for patients, not advocating for specific drugs or development programs," Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), insisted last week at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's 2015 Patient and Health Advocacy Summit in Washington.
"Patient advocacy groups should be in the business of advocating for patients, not advocating for specific drugs or development programs," Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), insisted last week at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's 2015 Patient and Health Advocacy Summit in Washington.
"I don't think it's that healthy to engage patients and advocates for a drug," Woodcock told Scrip after the meeting....
A new muscle-building front is opening in the fight against obesity, with Lilly among the leaders. But it plans to remain tight-lipped on upcoming Phase II data for its myostatin inhibitor in combination with Novo’s Wegovy for fear of playing into the hands of its rival.
The Mereo-partnered drug is in pivotal development for osteogenesis imperfecta. Ultragenyx also recently reported positive Phase III data for a rare disease gene therapy.
The company sees a $5bn opportunity to treat children with achondroplasia and the less severe growth disorder variant, hypochondroplasia.
Phase I/II data for its ADC candidates in myotonic dystrophy type 1 and Duchenne muscular dystrophy indicate potential for biomarker-based accelerated approval in both diseases, Dyne asserts.
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Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Interim results from the Phase III REMARK study presented at WCLC showed the Chinese company’s second-generation ALK/ROS1 inhibitor met its primary endpoint as a first-line therapy in ALK-positive advanced NSCLC.
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