Daily round-up of news and notes from the 2017 J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco. Regeneron CEO rebuffs Amgen’s patent battle strategy; Teva CEO apologizes for reduced financial guidance; Merck looks for more Keytruda wins, combos; Lilly awaits potentially differentiating Phase III CDK4/6 data; Alkermes readies ALKS 5461 depression submission; Biden discusses cancer moonshot; FDA’s real world evidence views; and UniQure turns a corner.
The legal battle between Amgen Inc. and Sanofi/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. is intensifying over rival PCSK9 blockers for high cholesterol – and words were exchanged in separate investor presentations at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco.
Amgen recently won an injunction blocking sales of Sanofi/Regeneron’s Praluent (alirocumab), which was found to infringe patents for Amgen’s Repatha...
The Swiss pharma company is rebalancing the portfolio, emphasizing best-in-class drugs and moving into new areas like cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
In this week's episode: Trump’s UK drug pricing win; Novo explains semaglutide Alzheimer's rationale; J&J and Novartis on this year’s biggest M&A deals; a look at the mixed performance of CAR-Ts; and Akeso’s goals beyond ivonescimab.
Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Lilly's first Phase III triplet win opens the door to a label expansion in BTK-pretreated CLL, with analysts suggesting Jaypica could attain blockbuster status. However, the window to capitalize may be brief as next-generation BTK degraders close in with head-to-head trials.
Lilly's first Phase III triplet win opens the door to a label expansion in BTK-pretreated CLL, with analysts suggesting Jaypica could attain blockbuster status. However, the window to capitalize may be brief as next-generation BTK degraders close in with head-to-head trials.
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