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With backing from three Big Pharma investment arms, British biotech T-Therapeutics is brewing up a clinical launch for its cancer and autoimmune T cell engagers.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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Boehringer Ingelheim is building up its China strategy, inking a deal to develop new cancer treatments with Sino Biopharmaceutical just weeks after opening an R&D facility in Shanghai.
AbbVie’s $100 million upfront cash payment will purchase global rights to Nxera’s deprioritized oral small molecule, which has already completed Phase 1 testing.
With the first Phase 3 data expected for Amgen’s MariTide next year, analysts are looking for evidence that the GLP-1 candidate is tolerable. Meanwhile, the company has begun testing an autoinjector formulation.
Sanofi has discontinued an early-stage STAT6 degrader program licensed from Nurix Therapeutics, a decision analysts say is related to the asset itself or Sanofi’s strategic reprioritization rather than the drug class more broadly.
Speaking on third quarter earnings calls this week, Novo and Pfizer’s CEOs see little change to their Most Favored Nation drug pricing deals, which were signed with the Trump administration last year.
Novo CEO Mike Maziar Doustdar insists that his company is ahead of fierce rival Eli Lilly as oral Wegovy rises to 8 million total prescriptions since its January launch.
Since Pfizer already owns a tick-borne encephalitis franchise in Europe, the region is a natural first step for the pharma’s upcoming Lyme disease vaccine.
The majority of the large pharmas have now reported third quarter earnings—spoiler alert: Eli Lilly made more money than anyone expected. Plus, the FDA dropped another initiative aimed at accelerating rare disease treatments; HHS greenlights the compounding of six unapproved peptides; and uniQure’s embattled gene therapy for Huntington’s disease has finally been accepted for review.
In its latest five-year plan, China has set its sights on developing five drugs that could each rake in more than $1 billion globally by 2030. Experts say it’s well on its way, with two medications having already met that bar.
Pfizer is calling upon lessons learned from one of the first drugs ever made available on the internet—Viagra—as it commercializes a new obesity drug in China.