Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted regular approval to AstraZeneca’s osimertinib (Tagrisso), for the treatment of patients with metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), an international, public-private partnership focused on the discovery and development of new antimicrobial products to address the threat of antibiotic resistance, will fund research of Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals’s pipeline candidate TP-6076, a novel, synthetic, fluorocycline antibiotic candidate with $4 million.
Invictus MD Strategies Corp.,Canada’s cannabis company, said Thursday it will move its shares from the Canadian Securities Exchange and be listed on TSX Venture Exchange, where it starts trading on March 31, 2017.
Horizon Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused identifying, developing, acquiring and commercializing differentiated and accessible medicines that address unmet medical needs, has issued a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for U.S. patent application number 15/180,173…
Mylan has acquired the global rights to the Cold-Eeze brand cold remedy line from ProPhase Labs, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline’s new CEO Emma Walmsley, who takes over on April 1, has won a short-term reprieve from the threat of generic Advair with a delay in U.S. approval for Mylan’s copy of the blockbuster lung inhaler.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Novertis’s Biologics License Application (BLA) filing and granted priority review for CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel-T), an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy, in relapsed and refractory (r/r) pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche’s subsidiary Genentech’s Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) to treat adult patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS).
The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) have entered into a multi-year clinical research collaboration to coordinate and rapidly initiate clinical Immuno-Oncology (I-O) studies across the Parker Institute and CRI networks.
The Milner Therapeutics Institute is partnering up with Elysium Health to the Milner Therapeutics Consortium.