Full-Life Technologies Ltd. announced Sept. 29 the completion of a $77 million financing, comprising $50 million in series C equity and $27 million in debt financing, which will be used to advance a portfolio of radiopharmaceuticals and radionuclide-drug conjugates worldwide.
Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is licensing Hinge Bio Inc.’s multispecific antibody-based therapy HB-2198 in Japan for multiple autoimmune indications, starting with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Pharma companies are collaborating to boost the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery by allowing access to proprietary structural data to train a large language model.
A U.S. FDA complete response letter (CRL) citing manufacturing concerns has stepped into the way of a rare genetic disorder treatment. Fortress Biotech Inc. and its subsidiary, Cyprium Therapeutics Inc., said the letter in response to the NDA for CUTX-101, an injectable formulation of copper histidinate, noted cGMP deficiencies at the facility where the Menkes disease treatment is manufactured.
Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria who remain symptomatic despite H1 antihistamine treatment now have a new oral treatment option, with the U.S. FDA’s approval of Novartis AG’s Rhapsido (remibrutinib), a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor administered by pill twice daily.
Pfizer Inc. has become the first drugmaker to agree to provide its products at most-favored nation (MFN) pricing, an effort aimed at lowering the costs of U.S. drug prices by bringing them in line with the prices paid in other developed nations.
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