Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the incoming chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, penned a blistering letter that takes Moderna Inc. CEO Stéphane Bancel to task over the company’s plans to more than quadruple the U.S. list price of its COVID-19 vaccine once the government’s supply is depleted. Read More
Proposed mergers with Chinese companies will likely be subject to increased scrutiny from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) as evidenced by the temporary hold placed on the merger between F-star Therapeutics Ltd. and Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd.’s Invox Pharma Ltd. that was announced in June 2022. Read More
China's National Healthcare Security Administration will not be adding Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid to its list of medicines covered by basic medical insurance schemes in the country, due to its high prices. Read More
The success of the U.K. COVID-19 genomics consortium in large-scale sequencing, tracking variants of concern, establishing rates of transmissibility and informing public health decision-making during the pandemic, is to be extended to the monitoring of other respiratory viruses. Read More
Juvena Therapeutics Inc. co-founder and CEO Hanadie Yousef had the company’s name picked out several years before it was officially incorporated in 2017 to combine Yousef’s work in the mechanics of aging with an underutilized class of biologics and an advanced proteomics platform to tackle chronic and age-related diseases. Read More
Alpine Immune Science Inc.’s update in its earnings report Nov. 14 on its ALPN-303 program added more intrigue to the notion of targeting B cell cytokines B cell activating factor (BAFF) and a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) together in lupus, as other players are trying the dual approach as well, including China’s Remegen Co. Ltd. and Vera Therapeutics Inc.< Read More
Now in its 10th year, Clarivate’s newly released Drugs to Watch 2023 report primarily features treatments targeted to a particular biomarker, signaling the advance and increasing potential of personalized medicines. The 15 drugs on the list are anticipated to either register sales of more than $1 billion by 2027 or be clinical game changers. Nine are predicted to hit $1 billion annual sales each in China by 2030. Read More
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Acticor, Alterity, Alto, Biofrontera, Genethon, Glycomine, Innovent, Insilico, Journey, Pieris, Rocket, Sutro, Union, Vistagen, Vyne. Read More
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Alzecuree, Arbor, Imago, Merck, Myrtelle, Phlox, Raaven, Solid, Urogen, Vertex, Waverly. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Can-Fite, Dizal, Minerva, Qualigen, Renexxion, Treadwell. Read More
