Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Novartis today announced positive Phase IIb data showing remibrutinib (LOU064), a potentially best-in-class oral BTK inhibitor, demonstrated rapid and effective disease control in patients with inadequately controlled chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU).
LEO Pharma shared results showing that after two years of continuous treatment with Adtralza, adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis maintained improvements in signs and symptoms, itch severity and sleep interference
Novartis’ dana from new analysis from a Phase IIb study has showed the importance of achieving complete control of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) symptoms in improving overall health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for patients, as complete control of symptoms brings enormous benefit to people with CSU and is associated with improvements in key HRQoL measures such as overall quality of life, sleep interference, activity interference and work impairment.
Santhera Pharmaceuticals has announced a cahs boost with an oversubscribed equity financing of CHF 20 million, a placement of private convertible bonds of CHF 15 million and upsizing of an existing financing arrangement of up to CHF 10 million.
Oncimmune Holdings has signed an autoantibody profiling agreement with a leading global pharmaceutical company to evaluate the autoantibody profiles of patient samples in various autoimmune diseases.
Novartis said Monday it has started a collaboration with SOLTI Innovative Cancer Research (SOLTI) on HARMONIA, an international, randomized, Phase III, multicenter, open-label study of Kisqali (ribociclib) versus Ibrance (palbociclib),.
CannEpil+ , based on CannEpil, designed by MGC Pharma to treat Refractory Epilepsy, has been approved for import into the UK by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency via its UK distribution and clinical access partner Elite Pharmaco.
Novartis got an acceptance by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Biologics License Application (BLA) for anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor tislelizumab for the treatment of unresectable recurrent locally advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in people who had received prior systemic therapy.
MGC Pharmaceuticals, a specialist in phytocannabinoid-derived medicines, has signed a binding US Market Supply and Distribution Agreement with US-based AMC Holdings, with minimum orders of $24 million for MGC products including CannEpil®, CogniCann® and CimetrA™ over the initial 3 year period.
BB Biotech, a Swiss investment company in the field of biotechnology, said Friday its shares returned 5.8% in CHF and 6.1% in EUR in the second quarter of 2021