At the 2021 virtual annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), results of the VISION trial testing the addition of Novartis AG's' radiopharmaceutical lutetium-177-PSMA-617 to individualized standard-of-care regimens in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer improved both overall survival and radiographic progression-free survival.
Novartis AG’s CAR T therapy, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), is heading for a third indication after the Basel, Switzerland-based pharma announced supportive results from a pivotal phase II trial, lining it up to compete with Gilead Sciences Inc.’s rival, Yescarta.
Novartis AG is closing in on a label expansion for its blockbuster inflammatory disease drug, Cosentyx (secukinumab), after announcing supportive phase III results in children with two subtypes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) ordered six drug companies May 17 to immediately resume providing 340B discounts to contract pharmacies without restrictions and to credit or refund overcharges stemming from those restrictions.
It looks like the two biosimilars referencing Amgen Inc.’s Enbrel (etanercept) will have to wait out the rest of the decade before launching in the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court declined May 17 to hear Sandoz Inc.’s appeal of last year’s split Federal Circuit ruling affirming the validity of two patents protecting etanercept and its manufacturing methods
LONDON – DNA damage response (DDR) specialist Artios Pharma Ltd. has signed a potential $1.3 billion deal to apply its technology to discover drugs that will work in combination with Novartis AG’s radioligand therapies.
During a panel discussion at Biocom California's Global Life Sciences Partnering Conference, business development executives at various pharmaceutical companies advised biotech companies on everything from funding to manufacturing to deal structure.
The U.S. NIH’s Feb. 17 announcement that it’s funding a study of the effects of remdesivir in treating COVID-19 in pregnant women is welcome news, but it begs the question of why it took so long given the risk of more severe disease in that population.
Just weeks after seeing one late-stage candidate hit a wall in a subtype of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Merck KGaA's EMD Serono has won accelerated approval from the FDA for another important NSCLC therapy, Tepmetko (tepotinib).
The numbers are staggering when it comes to the potential drug risks pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as their babies, are exposed to and the treatments they may be denied because of the lack of data.
