The News: Eureka Therapeutics Inc., a closely held biotechnology company, said that liver cancer patients getting its CAR-T therapy responded to the treatment, one of the first times the immune-system… Read more »
The News: After decades of prominent failures, hope arose for a drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). After heightening expectations recently, Eisai Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Biogen… Read more »
The News: BioArctic AB, based in Stockholm, said it has clinical results showing its antibody treatment that targets amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, can slow the disease’s progression. The trial… Read more »
The News: Two Chinese biotechs recently scrapped plans to list in New York and instead aim to raise up to $800 million in Hong Kong IPOs, seeking to cash in… Read more »
The News: The drug industry has taken heat from patient advocates and a US senator for handing out its tax savings to shareholders instead of using its windfall to help patients… Read more »
The News: Warren Buffett says his joint venture with Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon is going for something bigger than shaving a few percentage points off healthcare costs. The big… Read more »
The News: Celltrion Inc. said on February 14, 2018 that it has received approval to sell its replica version of Roche Holding AG’s (Basel CHE) breast-cancer blockbuster Herceptin in Europe…. Read more »
The News: For decades, patients in China have fought to gain access to cutting-edge medicines thanks to bureaucratic delays that have thwarted drug development. Now a sweeping government overhaul of… Read more »
The News: Recuperating from a trial flop involving its lead drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Cambridge MA) is charging ahead with a late-stage study, hyping new data… Read more »
The News: Pfizer Inc. (NYC) on Monday (September 25, 2017) announced that it is spinning off a new company, SpringWorks Therapeutics LLC, to develop several drugs for rare diseases that… Read more »
