In Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s phase I/II Chord study of 12 children with genetic hearing loss, 10 out of 11 have shown improvements after being treated with a gene therapy. “What is really remarkable about this type of therapeutic approach is that the first people who are going to see the impact are not actually the physicians – it’s the families,” Jonathon Whitton, vice president and Regeneron’s auditory global program head, told BioWorld. Read More
Nearly four years after signing its first major partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Bridgene Biosciences Inc. returned for a second deal with Takeda – this time focused on using its chemoproteomics platform to discover novel small molecules against immunology and neurology targets. Read More
Qyuns Therapeutics Co. Ltd.’s monoclonal antibody targeting IL-17A, QX-002N, met both primary and secondary endpoints in a phase III trial in ankylosing spondylitis. Read More
Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. struck two licensing deals recently, including one with Hyfe Inc. Feb. 25 to develop the world’s potential first prescription digital therapeutic for chronic cough in Japan. Read More
As Wall Street looks ahead to phase III data due soon with Mineralys Therapeutics Inc.’s lorundrostat for uncontrolled or resistant hypertension, analysts are also weighing the odds of the firm in phase II with the same compound for obstructive sleep apnea. Read More
The Trump administration dashed hopes that it would temper the Medicare price negotiations mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act when it filed the government’s brief in response to Novartis AG’s appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Read More
Billion-dollar M&As are commonplace now, but not too long ago they were a rarity. So many have occurred in the past few years, they’ve become the norm. But were all these multi-billion-dollar mega mergers worth the money? Karen Carey, BioWorld’s senior managing editor and chief analyst, crunched the numbers on 21 of the biggest M&As in a three-part BioWorld series and found very few have been, so far, good deals for the buyer. In this podcast, Carey sifts through the winners and losers and explains the analysis. Read More
The Clarivate Medtech Trends to Watch in 2024 report noted the resilience of the medtech sector in the face of changing macroeconomic factors and the preparation required to navigate the market’s many complexities. It is likely that 2025 will be no different. Read More
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Arcutis, Axsome, Biocryst, OSE, Pepgen, Redx, Sanofi, Teva. Read More
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: GSK, Idrx, Novo Nordisk, OS Therapies. Read More
