Worldwide Clinical Trials
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Amidst a shifting clinical landscape characterized by increasingly complex trial designs and growing patient subpopulations, many contract research organizations (CROs) have adopted a “one-stop-shop” strategic approach. As a result, various CROs have undergone significant consolidations and acquisitions of specialized capabilities to address the escalating complexity in clinical trials.
Bio Pharma Dive
DECEMBER 10, 2023
A new sickle cell disease therapy developed by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals is now approved in the U.S. and U.K. This is the story of how it came to be.
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Bio Pharma Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The Healey center is at the front of ALS research and care, earning acclaim from patients, doctors and scientists. Still, the complexities of the disease and of drug development have brought hard-felt losses.
STAT News
APRIL 3, 2023
Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the personal information of visitors as soon as they start clicking on their websites. A new study found that 99% of U.S. hospitals employed online data trackers in 2021 that transmitted visitors’ information to a broad network of outside parties, including major technology companies, data brokers, an
Bio Pharma Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Once the specialty of a few select drugmakers, CRISPR gene editing is now an essential technology for a growing group of biotechs, many led by former students of the field's pioneering scientists.
STAT News
JANUARY 18, 2023
Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. The vaccine was being developed by Janssen, the vaccine division of Johnson & Johnson.
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Pharmaceutical Technology
JUNE 20, 2023
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted an emergency use listing (EUL) to SK bioscience’s Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovione. SKYCovione is a self-assembled nanoparticle vaccine and the 12th Covid-19 vaccine to receive a EUL from the regulator. Developed using pharmaceutical company GSK’s pandemic adjuvant, the vaccine targets the receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
NPR Health - Shots
MARCH 14, 2023
Researchers say Mexican pharmacies that cater to U.S. tourists and medical travelers are selling medications that look safe but are laced with deadly fentanyl and methamphetamines.
Fierce Pharma
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen is in the books, the company said on Thursda | It’s a done deal. Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen is in the books, as it becomes the largest M&A transaction in the biopharma industry since AbbVie snatched up Allergan for $63 billion in 2019. The buyout of the antibody-drug conjugate specialist has doubled Pfizer’s pipeline to 60 programs.
Medical Xpress
MAY 4, 2023
Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19.
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BioPharma Reporter
APRIL 6, 2023
Meissner Corporation â a company which manufactures advanced microfiltration and therapeutic manufacturing systems for pharmaceutical drugs, therapeutics, biologics, and cell and gene therapies - will invest nearly $250m in a new manufacturing facility in Athens-Clarke County in the US.
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Talking techbio with NVIDIA: Accelerated computing, NLP, and GenAI in drug discovery Mike.
BioSpace
APRIL 12, 2023
Pfizer and BioNTech Sued for Patent Infringement Over mRNA Vaccine 4/13/2023
FDA Law Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2023
By Larry K. Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner.
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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.
Bio Pharma Dive
MARCH 7, 2023
As many as a third of FDA-approved drugs target GPCRs in some fashion, with uses ranging from treating cancer to pain. But biotech startups say there is still room to develop more.
Bio Pharma Dive
MARCH 7, 2023
Rapport Therapeutics aims to find new so-called receptor-associated proteins that could serve as targets for neurological disease medicines. Its most advanced drug is already in early-stage human testing.
Bio Pharma Dive
JANUARY 9, 2023
An Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly, BioMarin’s hemophilia gene therapy and a new type of breast cancer treatment are among the top decisions on the agency’s docket through the end of March.
Bio Pharma Dive
JANUARY 25, 2023
The veteran investors see the marriage of tech and life sciences as the “largest opportunity in venture today,” said co-founder and former Lux Capital general partner Adam Goulburn.
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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.
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 3, 2023
The decision represents the first fruits of a scientific breakthrough a decade ago that gave drugmakers, among them GSK, Pfizer and Moderna, a blueprint for an effective shot against the virus.
Bio Pharma Dive
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The pharma and partner BioNTech have kicked off the first human trial of a messenger RNA shot for shingles, believing there’s room to clear the high bar set by GSK’s rival vaccine.
Bio Pharma Dive
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The trial, which is ongoing in the U.K. and New Zealand, has been on hold in the U.S. since late last year as the FDA sought more details on Verve’s in vivo treatment for heart disease.
Bio Pharma Dive
JUNE 5, 2023
The results, which partially leaked in April, show Carvykti’s potential to be used after a drug called Revlimid fails, rather than reserved for only after several treatments do.
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Bio Pharma Dive
APRIL 25, 2023
Biogen’s drug failed the key study meant to show it can slow the nerve-destroying disease, but the drug’s effect on a protein of interest led the FDA to conditionally clear it for market.
Bio Pharma Dive
JANUARY 17, 2023
In a conversation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, the longtime Biogen executive discussed his hesitance to jump back into an executive role and why an opportunity to run Voyager Therapeutics drew him in.
Bio Pharma Dive
JANUARY 23, 2023
This year could stay turbulent for the biotech sector as investors look for what the Roivant CEO described in an interview with BioPharma Dive as “safe harbors in a storm.
Bio Pharma Dive
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Sales of Pfizer's antiviral Paxlovid and shot Comirnaty have been slower than it anticipated, while a shift to the commercial market for the antiviral has been delayed.
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Bio Pharma Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Based on the work of MIT scientists, the well-funded startup is developing ways to insert large sizes of genetic material anywhere in the genome without damaging or breaking DNA.
Bio Pharma Dive
JANUARY 10, 2023
The FDA commissioner shared advice for drugmakers at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, while venture investors cautioned of a coming funding crunch for young biotechs.
Bio Pharma Dive
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The high-profile meeting focused on the theoretical risks of CRISPR gene editing, as both the FDA and its advisory committee appeared convinced by the efficacy of the companies’ exa-cel treatment.
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 25, 2023
A pair of dual-acting antibodies displayed early potential to become a new type of drug regimen for the blood cancer, but led to a high rate of side effects as well.
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