One biotech is looking to lessen antipsychotic-induced weight gain, despite...
Response Pharmaceuticals believes its experimental drug can lessen the persistent weight gain associated with antipsychotics. In a new pilot study, the company assessed RDX-002 in 20 healthy people....
View Article‘We’re good’ on weight loss: Biopharmas turn to muscle with new obesity drugs
SAN ANTONIO — It took decades to get to the GLP-1 breakthrough in obesity treatment. Now, the biopharma industry is clamoring over the field's next frontier: staving off the losses in muscle or lean...
View ArticleAcadia lands $150M sale of rare pediatric PRV
Acadia Pharmaceuticals has sold its priority review voucher for $150 million, the company said Tuesday, but did not disclose the buyer. The FDA granted Acadia the rare pediatric PRV in March ...
View ArticleNovo unveils new cardiometabolic data as it reports solid third-quarter profits
Novo Nordisk disclosed several key updates from its cardiometabolic and hematology pipelines Wednesday as the drugmaker revealed its third-quarter profits edged out expectations. First up, the Danish...
View ArticleNew Trump era could be a boon for biopharma M&A, dealmaking
As former President Donald Trump returns to power — the Associated Press projected his presidential victory Wednesday morning — the biopharma industry may see the door open wider for more dealmaking,...
View ArticleAt this year's ObesityWeek, GLP-1s aren’t the only talk of the town
SAN ANTONIO — As the GLP-1 class has taken over in recent years, a once-fringe conference has come into the spotlight for the biopharma industry. ObesityWeek, which started in 2013, attracted more than...
View ArticleBiotech industry worries over potential for RFK Jr. ally as FDA pick
US presidential election winner Donald Trump has promised to let his ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on drug and food policy. While Kennedy’s exact role in a potential Trump administration is...
View ArticleMacroGenics pauses development of ADC; Cellectis deprioritizes CAR-T
Plus, news about Tango Therapeutics, Endo, Neurogene and Century Therapeutics: MacroGenics stopped dosing patients in ADC trial: After three patient deaths in a Phase 2 prostate cancer drug trial for...
View ArticleCVS names Aetna head, plans more pharmacy closures as new CEO takes over
In his first quarter leading CVS Health, CEO David Joyner laid out the initial steps he’s taking to rightsize the company, as challenges continue to plague its insurance business. As part of those...
View ArticleStudies show how once-obscure DNA circles drive cancer, and maybe even how to...
Scientists have unveiled a strategy for targeting a vulnerability in tiny circles of floating DNA that can drive aggressive cancers. These circles — known as extrachromosomal DNA, or ecDNA, because...
View ArticleQ&A: GSK’s CEO Emma Walmsley on the new Trump administration, trust, AI and...
Despite the rise of a vaccine skeptic in the campaign of US presidential election winner Donald Trump, GSK CEO Emma Walmsley believes her company can work “constructively” with the incoming...
View ArticleCalifornia voters say yes to restrictions around 340B spending
California voters supported a state ballot measure on Tuesday that would increase oversight around the 340B federal drug discount program. According to unofficial results, 51.5% of voters said yes to...
View ArticleSarepta discontinues work on next-gen exon-skipping drug for Duchenne
Sarepta Therapeutics is stopping development of vesleteplirsen, an experimental exon 51-skipping therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients with certain mutations. It's also halting work on all...
View ArticleModerna reports $10M in first RSV sales, a slow start for new vaccine
Moderna revealed the consequences of its late start in the market for RSV vaccines, reporting just $10 million in third-quarter sales from the new shot. Those numbers are a fraction of the $600 million...
View ArticleJoe Jimenez's latest Aditum company lines up T cell engager from China
Joe Jimenez's Aditum Bio, an investment firm that builds companies around in-licensed assets, is going after one of the hottest new areas for its latest startup. The Oakland, CA-based firm is setting...
View ArticleArcus backs TIGIT combo by offering glimpse at positive data from axed trial
Arcus Biosciences unveiled data from a terminated late-stage study of its TIGIT and PD-1 drug combo that it says supports its decision to take the approach forward in a different lung cancer setting....
View ArticleGilead beats Covid drug sales forecasts, takes $1.75B hit on Trodelvy study fail
Gilead said its Covid-19 antiviral Veklury had $692 million in third-quarter sales, far more than the $270 million Wall Street analysts had projected. Gilead’s shares {$GILD} were up 3% in after ...
View ArticleHow Menlo Ventures thinks AI in health tech is going to be commoditized
While there’s a lot of potential for AI in health tech, it will soon be commoditized, investor Greg Yap told Endpoints News in an interview on the sidelines of the HLTH conference in Las Vegas ...
View ArticleAvid Bioservices to be sold to private equity firms for $1.1B
After a year of customer pullbacks, biologics CDMO Avid Bioservices will be taken private by GHO Capital Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners in a deal worth $1.1 billion. “In evaluating this...
View ArticleNobel winner Demis Hassabis talks next steps for AI in biology
LONDON — Demis Hassabis is pursuing one of the boldest efforts of bringing AI into biotech, building out the Alphabet-backed startup Isomorphic Labs over the past three years. In an exclusive sitdown ...
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