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What FDA’s Newest Gene Therapy Approval Tells Us About Durability: How Long is Long Enough?

FDA Law Blog

By Mark A. Tobolowsky & James E. Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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Biotech veteran Jeff Jonas on leaving Sage, guiding new biotechs and his ‘personal odyssey’

Bio Pharma Dive

In an interview with BioPharma Dive, the longtime industry executive discussed becoming a biotech investor and his plans for Abio-X, a new incubator with $150 million to spend on startups.

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Kite and Daiichi Sankyo update cell therapy licensing agreement

Pharmaceutical Technology

Kite Pharma and Daiichi Sankyo have updated a partnership agreement signed in 2017 for the former’s CAR T-cell therapy, Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). Under the prior deal, Daiichi Sankyo acquired exclusive rights for the development, manufacturing and commercialisation of Yescarta in Japan. Subsequently, in the same year, Gilead Sciences acquired Kite.

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AstraZeneca focuses on breast cancer care transformation

Pharma Times

Data reinforces potential to deliver new standards across HER2-targetable breast cancer

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Opinion: Artificial intelligence: crossing the border between health care and tech

STAT News

There’s been significant investment in companies creating artificial intelligence (AI) applications for health and health care over the last decade. But while there have been successes, notably in the area of medical imaging, the industry is known more for not yet living up to its potential — think IBM Watson. The slow pace of AI adoption in health care stems from the fact that health AI sits on the border between two large industries, health care and tech.

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Dantari emerges with a new way to make cancer drug conjugates

Bio Pharma Dive

As the success of drugs like Enhertu catalyzes new investment in antibody-drug conjugates, the California startup is launching with plans to develop more potent versions of the targeted cancer medicines.

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Is lecanemab the Alzheimer's drug that will finally make a difference?

NPR Health - Shots

The experimental drug lecanemab was able to slow down Alzheimer's in a large study. Many researchers think the drug will become the first to help large numbers of patients.

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Opinion: Victims of domestic abuse should get the same top-notch concussion care as athletes

STAT News

Two vastly different experiences — serving as a “guest coach” on the sidelines for a Division I football team and volunteering in a busy emergency department — showed me just how unequal and damaging the lack of care provided for women who are victims of domestic violence can be. In the first decade of the 2000s, one of the benefits of being a professor at Wake Forest University was the opportunity I received nearly every year to serve as a guest coach.

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TherapeuticsMD to offload drugs to Australia’s Mayne after failed buyout

Bio Pharma Dive

After a private equity takeover unraveled this summer, the women’s health company is selling its drug portfolio to Mayne Pharma in a $153 million deal.

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Sanofi and Queensland collaborate to build $190m research facility

Pharmaceutical Technology

Sanofi has signed an agreement with the Queensland Government in Australia to establish a $190m (A$280m) research facility in Brisbane. With the establishment of this Translational Science Hub, Queensland is set to become an international messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine hub. According to the latest deal, the University of Queensland (UQ) and Griffith University will serve as foundational partners.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Thanks to the 'tripledemic,' it can be hard to find kids' fever-reducing medicines

NPR Health - Shots

Makers of products like Children's Tylenol say they're trying to keep up with big demand as RSV, flu, and COVID spread. But medical experts note that kids' fevers don't always call for medicine.

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Opinion: If you think health care is dysfunctional now, just wait until after January 1

STAT News

Doctors across the country, especially those in primary care, have been up in arms about Medicare’s proposed cuts in reimbursement that are scheduled to go into effect on January 1. They are concerned — rightfully so — that these cuts will be ruinous to their practices and compromise the care they can provide to their patients. As an emergency physician, I worry about the cuts for a different reason: emergency departments might soon be filled with more and more people who ca

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Relmada sinks further as depression drug fails second large trial

Bio Pharma Dive

The company claimed an “unplausible” placebo response caused both studies to fail and is making substantive changes to its other remaining late-stage trial as a result.

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MHRA warns of serious eye-related adverse events after Dupixent use

Pharmaceutical Technology

On 29 November, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned of some new and potentially serious eye-related side effects associated with Dupixent, an interleukin (IL)-4/13 inhibitor drug used in the treatment of numerous allergic indications such as atopic dermatitis, asthma and nasal polyps. GlobalData anticipates that this safety update will likely raise physician and regulator vigilance regarding long-term Dupixent use but is unlikely to impact overall prescribi

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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China lends billions to poor countries. Is that a burden. or a blessing?

NPR Health - Shots

China doles out much cash for infrastructure. It must be repaid. Is that frustrating for recipients? A new survey has a surprising answer. But skeptics wonder: How honest were the participants?

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ONWARD reveals ARC therapy spinal cord injury report

Pharma Times

Implantable ARC therapy demonstrates potential to improve blood pressure regulation

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Biotech layoffs claim more jobs at Sensei, Instil, TherapeuticsMD

Bio Pharma Dive

Cell therapy Instil Bio will cut 60% of its staff and Sensei Bio will reduce its headcount by 40%. TherapeuticsMD, meanwhile, is laying off all its employees days after announcing a deal to sell off its drug portfolio.

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Touchlight and Odimma enter cancer therapy clinical material supply agreement

Pharmaceutical Technology

Touchlight and Odimma Therapeutics have entered an agreement for the development and supply of clinical material for usage in the latter’s neoantigen programme for cancer. According to the agreement, Odimma will obtain access to the doggybone deoxyribonucleic acid (dbDNA) vector technology of Touchlight. . This will back and strengthen their immunotherapy cancer treatment candidate’s development.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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In the hunt for a male contraceptive, scientists look to stop sperm in their tracks

NPR Health - Shots

For decades birth control research focused on women. Now there's a new push to develop gels, pills or other products that could keep men from getting their partners pregnant.

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FDA grants fast-track designation for Istesso’s IPF candidate

Pharma Times

The therapy has reduced inflammation and supported the remodelling of damaged bone

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Esperion, without data, says cholesterol pill lowered heart risk in study

Bio Pharma Dive

The large cardiovascular outcomes trial is a major test for Esperion, which has struggled to sell its drug Nexletol since winning U.S. approval in 2020.

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AbbVie and HotSpot sign partnership for autoimmune disease therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

AbbVie has entered an exclusive global partnership and option to licence agreement for HotSpot Therapeutics’ interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) programme, which is in the discovery stage, to treat autoimmune diseases. The partnership will utilise the Smart Allostery drug discovery platform of HotSpot to develop the first and only small molecule inhibitor of IRF5 for these diseases.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Why vaccine hesitancy persists in China — and what they're doing about it

NPR Health - Shots

The reluctance of many citizens — especially the elderly — to get vaccinated is a problem for a government facing intense pressure to roll back strict COVID policies.

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Valneva shares positive chikungunya vaccine results

Pharma Times

99% of participants retained very high neutralising antibody levels 12 months after treatment

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Star Therapeutics launches Vega, growing its galaxy of drug startups

Bio Pharma Dive

The second startup to emerge from Star’s “hub-and-spoke” model aims to develop a Hemlibra-like antibody drug for the blood clotting disorder von Willebrand disease.

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MEI and Kyowa Kirin to discontinue development of zandelisib outside Japan

Pharmaceutical Technology

MEI Pharma and Kyowa Kirin have announced plans to discontinue the international development of investigational cancer therapy, zandelisib, for B-cell malignancies outside of Japan. The latest development comes after the companies received guidance from a meeting held with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November. Currently, Kyowa Kirin is advancing the studies including the Phase II MIRAGE clinical trial of the therapy in Japanese participants with relapsed or refractory indolent B

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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New research links common sweetener with anxiety

Medical Xpress

Florida State University College of Medicine researchers have linked aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in nearly 5,000 diet foods and drinks, to anxiety-like behavior in mice.

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Novadip reveals results from severe bone non-union trial

Pharma Times

Study involves candidate NVD-003 and the treatment of lower limb trauma

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Novartis prostate cancer drug succeeds in study key to company’s sales hopes

Bio Pharma Dive

The positive results could help Novartis secure approval for earlier use of the radiopharmaceutical drug Pluvicto, potentially broadening the number of eligible patients by several times the current market.

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Monoclonal antibodies challenge marketed small-molecule Alzheimer’s dominance

Pharmaceutical Technology

The three leading Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drugs currently in development are all monoclonal antibodies—donanemab by Eli Lilly , lecanemab by Eisai and Biogen , and gantenerumab by Roche. The rise of these monoclonal antibodies may change the dominance of small molecules within Alzheimer’s drugs, which account for 78% of all approved innovator drugs.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time