After a flurry of activity in December, when the FDA approved seven new molecular entities (NMEs), the total of novel drugs that were given the green light this year reached 48, a number that ranks third behind the record 59 new medicines the agency approved last year and 53 in 1996.
Eli Lilly and Co.'s $1.48 billion acquisition of Armo Biosciences Inc., intended to broadly bolster its immuno-oncology program, fell short of that goal in its first big test, a phase III trial in second-line pancreatic cancer called Sequoia.
PERTH, Australia – Following stunning interim clinical results for its Celgro nerve regeneration treatment in quadriplegic patients, regenerative medicine company Orthocell Ltd. will focus all its efforts on gaining early FDA approval based on the early results.
When Eli Lilly and Co. took over Colucid Pharmaceuticals Inc. for nearly $1 billion in early 2017, it brought then-migraine candidate Reyvow (lasmiditan) back to its founder and now to its FDA approval for the acute treatment of migraine, with or without aura, in adults. Its unusual mechanism puts it outside many other approved migraine treatments, which could hinder its market penetration.
After doing deals with big pharma — Eli Lilly and Co., Merck & Co. Inc., Abbvie Inc. and Bayer AG — Atomwise Inc. announced three partnerships last week with smaller preclinical companies to use its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to develop drugs for their targets.
Screening for early signs of cognitive impairment and dementia amongst the elderly is a task that's often unevenly attended to by primary care physicians. But the routine personal consumer devices that we use every day might offer a clearer and more consistent window into early declines in cognitive and memory function, according to data from a feasibility study that were reported this week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Knowledge, Discovery and Data Mining conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
Eli Lilly and Co.'s FDA win with Baqsimi (glucagon) nasal powder, the first non-injected therapy to gain clearance for emergency treatment of hypoglycemia, makes the rescue of severely hypoglycemic patients quicker and easier, and coming down the pike are more treatments that could simplify therapy.
