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The main beneficiary of Roche’s discontinuation of an investigational spinal muscular atrophy drug is Scholar Rock, which was hobbled by manufacturing concerns at a Novo Nordisk facility last year but is now nearing a potential resolution.
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The Hunter syndrome space suffered a setback in February when the FDA turned down REGENXBIO’s investigational gene therapy, raising urgent questions about whether competitor Denali Therapeutics can clear the agency’s bar next month.
After the FDA’s first-ever public listening meeting on data-sharing in the cell and gene therapy space, new draft guidance aims to standardize the practice. But recent decisions call into question whether shared evidence and prior knowledge will accelerate development in rare diseases.
A “significant number of patients” could see a cure for multiple myeloma within the next two decades, one expert told BioSpace. Here are five therapies that could change the treatment paradigm.
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The Phase 3 EMANATE study is a basket trial looking at the efficacy of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals’ injectable obesity drug across four types of obesities driven by specific genetic mutations.
In a highly competitive space, AI platforms must now prove themselves through proprietary data, focused pipelines and clinical readouts in competitive diseases. Promises of faster, cheaper drug discovery are not enough to entice strong investor engagement.
With Ascendis Pharma entering the achondroplasia space last month and BridgeBio on deck, BioMarin faces competition. Adding to the pressure, the company suffered a setback Monday when it halted two studies of Voxzogo in other growth-related conditions following multiple cases of hip injuries in other trials of the drug.
Structure Therapeutics’ oral obesity drug elicited a placebo-adjusted weight loss of 16.3% at 44 weeks in a Phase 2 trial. The biotech is planning to launch a late-stage program for the drug later this year.
Sana Biotechnology is looking to start clinical development for its type 1 diabetes therapy SC451 this year.
As the Formula 1 season kicks off in the APAC region, biopharma companies can take a page from the popular sport’s playbook around precision, adaptability, and the right team. In return, biopharma can also offer some lessons to elite motor sport on well-rounded excellence in the race to market.
Solid Biosciences’ SGT-003 is the only late‑stage program to show early cardiac benefit across biomarkers and function, according to William Blair.
Data from BridgeBio Pharma’s Phase 3 FORTIFY study show that BBP-418 significantly increases levels of a key disease biomarker that helps stabilize muscles in patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
Data presented at the 2026 Muscular Dystrophy Association meeting could have readthroughs to companies developing therapies for spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy.
In this episode of Denatured, you’ll listen to Oxana Iliach, senior director of regulatory strategy at Certara and Vera Pomerantseva, director of product management for risk-based quality management at eClinical Solutions. We speak about how the FDA’s latest decision to have one, rather than two pivotal studies, for new drug applications raises the bar for data collection and risk-based management.