Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Novartis has reported new analysis showing that moderate-to-severe psoriasis patients treated with Cosentyx (secukinumab) rapidly regain clear or almost clear skin (Psoriasis Area Severity Index, PASI 90 to 100) following relapse during a treatment pause. Also showed no anti-secukinumab antibodies were observed during retreatment.
Novartis’s division Sandoz has reported that Phase 3 confirmatory efficacy, safety and immunogenicity study met its primary endpoint demonstrating biosimilar adalimumab GP2017 has equivalent efficacy to the reference medicine, Humira.
XW Laboratories has partnered up with the University of Pittsburgh on commercialization of certain compounds based on pioneering mitochondria targeted bis-nitroxide technology developed in the laboratory of Professor Peter Wipf.
TiGenix has received the Day 180 List of Outstanding Issues (LoOI) from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and expects to receive a Marketing Authorization decision for Crohn’s disease drug Cx601 in 2017.
CTI BioPharma has reported neto loss of $6.4 million for the fourth quarter 2016. Net loss has decreased comparing the same period last year when the company reported net loss of $28.8 million. As for the full year, the company has reported net loss of $52.0 million, which is also decrease comparing last years loss of $122.6 million.
ALK has named Hendrik Nolte new R&D strategist in North America and International markets including China, and will work in collaboration with ALK’s partners for Russia, Japan, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Denmark-headquartered company said Friday.
Sanofi’s vaccines global business unit Sanofi Pasteur has signed a deal with AstraZeneca’s biologics bramch MedImmune, to make and sell a monoclonal antibody-called MEDI8897-for the prevention of the most common reason for lower respiratory tract infections in newborns and infants, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
Leonard Bell, founder of Alexion Pharmaceuticals will not stand for reelection as a Board member and will retire as Chairman of the Board and as a Director at the end of his term, effective as of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for May 10, 2017.
First pharmaceutical cannabis factory was open in the USA on Tuesday, as Ultra Health, New Mexico’s first cannabis company with a nationwide presence, and Panaxia Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd, an Israeli pharmaceutical company specializing in pharmaceutical cannabis R&D and manufacturing launched their facility in Bernalillo, New Mexico.
English wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients are getting more choice to a first-line effective treatment, as the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) gave a positive Final Appraisal Determination (FAD) recommending the routine National Health Service (NHS) use of Merck’s Erbitux (cetuximab) in combination with either Folfiri or Folfox.