Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Eli Lilly’s phase 3 double-blind study (MONARCH 2) designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of abemaciclib, in combination with fulvestrant, in patients with advanced (locoregionally recurrent or metastatic) breast cancer has met its primary endpoint.
Arix Bioscience, the Lead Discovery Center GmbH (LDC), Max Planck Innovation GmbH (MPI), and the University of Leeds have signed agreement to develop new therapeutics for metabolic diseases based on the discoveries from these organisations.
ASIT biotech, a Belgian clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and future commercialization of immunotherapy products for the treatment of allergies, has appointed Gerd Zettlmeissl as its new Chairman of the Board, Béatrice De Vos having stood down to focus on new projects.
Array BioPharma said on Sunday it has exited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Division of Oncology Products 2 its new drug application (NDA) for binimetinib monotherapy for the treatment of NRAS-mutant melanoma, a rare, mutationally-driven subset of skin cancer.
AstraZeneca has reported results of the first large real-world evidence study of its kind evaluating the risk of hospitalisation for heart failure and death from any cause in patients with type-2 diabetes (T2D) receiving treatment with a newer class of diabetes medicines, SGLT-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i).
Kiadis Pharma, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative T-cell immunotherapy treatments for blood cancers and inherited blood disorders, has appointment Jan Feijen as Chief Operations Officer (COO) effective from April 1, 2017.
Oxford BioDynamics is one of six consortium partners to examine and address why immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) remit and relapse, with a particular focus on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
AstraZeneca’s subsidiary ZS Pharma has been developing an oral powder as a treatment for high potassium levels in the blood serum, called hyperkalaemia, for which it got a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Pharnext, a French biopharmaceutical company developing an advanced portfolio of products in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, has enroled the first two patients to the international Phase 3 Extension Study PLEO-CMT-FU of PXT3003 at La Timone University Hospital (Marseille, France).
Diplomat Pharmacy will distribute Novartis’s newly approved breast cancer drug Kisqali (ribociclib) as a first-line treatment for postmenopausal women with a serious form of the disease.