The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Gilead Sciences subsidiary Kite a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designation (RMAT) for Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) for adults with newly-diagnosed, high-risk large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL). 3 October 2024
Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and mAbxience, a Fresenius Kabi majority-owned group with partial ownership from Insud Pharma, have announced a global licensing deal for the development of an anti PD-1 oncology biosimilar candidate. 3 October 2024
Privately-held Ferring Pharmaceuticals has announced the opening of a global manufacturing hub in Finland for the drug substance of its intravesical non-replicating gene therapy Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg). 3 October 2024
AstraZeneca’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Calquence (acalabrutinib) has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the USA for the treatment of adults with previously untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). 3 October 2024
Shares of UK drug developer Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals rose as much as 9% and closed up 5.9% at 1.70 pence yesterday on the news of a further investment from Prevail Partners. 3 October 2024
Timing can be crucial in biotech, and any company that can help optimize radiopharmaceuticals to fight cancer is likely to a hot property right now, given the recent popularity of the field among investors and drugmakers. 2 October 2024
Johnson & Johnson today released results of a landmark real-world head-to-head study showing that Erleada (apalutamide) provided a statistically-significant overall survival benefit at 24 months (23% reduction of risk of death) compared to enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC). 2 October 2024
NK:IO, a London startup developing a cell therapy for treating solid tumors, has announced the appointment of a permant chief executive and the finalization of a seed funding round. 2 October 2024
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and SHINE Europe have secured a 10.5 million euro ($11 million) grant to advance European production of terbium isotopes for cancer treatments. 17 October 2024
Although it is seeing a downturn in sales and profits, German biotech BioNTech is continuing to acquire assets with the cash pile it made through the covid pandemic, notably iis Comirnaty vaccine that was developed with Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). 13 November 2024