F2G’s September $100m funding round provides the company with crucial funds to
renavigate approval of its lead drug, olorofim. The substantial financing also
highlights the paucity of novel antifungal products in the clinic. 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
As stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry, we all have a responsibility to ensure life-saving treatments promptly and safely reach patients regardless of where they live. To this end, by integrating early access programs and other less conventional strategies into a company’s business model for drug distribution, patients who are suffering from life-threatening conditions can gain access to needed treatments in regions where there is a lack of drug accessibility, while at the same time offering benefits to pharmaceutical companies. 2 October 2024
The Russian government has finalized the rules for granting preference to domestic drugs in public procurements, which will come into force in 2025. 1 October 2024
A Feature on M&A, licensing and partnerships hotting up in inflammatory diseases as new targets present new opportunities for future growth. 30 September 2024
India is set to complete 50 new greenfield pharma manufacturing plants in the next two years under its Production-linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for pharma and medical devices. 30 September 2024
The number of clinical trials of new drugs in Russia is steadily declining, which could be mainly related with the overall reduction of investment activities in the local pharmaceutical market, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 30 September 2024
Pharmaceutical laboratories, institutions, guilds and medical federations have taken on the task of designing programs to end health illiteracy in order to have informed, educated, knowledgeable and empowered communities where their health and wellbeing are concerned. 19 September 2024
Oligonucleotide therapeutics are rapidly emerging as a promising class of drugs capable of addressing a variety of genetic and complex diseases by targeting RNA sequences.1 16 September 2024
The protection of intellectual property (IP) rights of foreign pharmaceutical companies in Russia remains complex situation, according to recent statements by Konstantin Panurovsky, legal director of AstraZeneca’s Russian subsidiary, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 13 September 2024
The Russian Ministry of Health wants to speed registration of drugs that are not localized in the Russian Federation at the time of the application submitted by domestic pharmaceutical companies, explaining such changes by "unpredictable geopolitical situation," reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 12 September 2024
NewCo, a relatively new business model that involves a joint venture (JV) between a biotech and a group of investors to bring the biotech’s promising assets to the global market, is gaining popularity among Chinese biotechs, who traditionally rely on out-licensing deals to capitalize assets, s 11 September 2024
The upcoming European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024 should provide a reminder—if it were needed—of the pace of innovation in the development of new medicines for cancer. 10 September 2024
A significant drop has been noticed in the prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), bringing much-needed relief to the pharmaceutical industry and potentially translating to lower drug costs for consumers. 9 September 2024
Amid an explosion in investment and development milestones seen over the past decade, the age of radiopharmaceuticals as both diagnostics and as therapeutics is very much arriving. 5 September 2024
German pharma major Bayer has filed a lawsuit against the Russian drugmaker Promomed to protect the patent rights for Xarelto (rivaroxaban), its treatment for stroke prevention which is the best-selling drug in the Russian market at present, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 2 September 2024
In a major crackdown, the Indian government has imposed an immediate ban on 156 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs, including commonly used antibiotics, pain relievers,and multivitamins. 27 August 2024
CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD), which has an incidence of 1 in 40,000 to 60,000 newborns, is a developmental disorder caused by either the presence of a non-functional cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) protein known as serine-threonine kinase (STK9), or its complete absence.1,2 20 June 2023
Russia is preparing for a new wave of drug prices growth this year due to a new bill, designed by the national Parliament aimed at tightening a control for the activities of domestic pharmacies, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 20 June 2023
Advanced cellular and tissue-engineered therapies offer ground-breaking opportunities for the treatment of diseases. Recent years have seen an uptick in the development and regulatory approval of revolutionary biological therapies across the globe.1 15 June 2023
As a functional, practical and intelligent way to regulate medical products in today’s globalized world—especially with increasing public health needs, limited resources and demand for faster and better treatments—the use of regulatory decisions from other jurisdictions represents a powerful and effective alternative. 14 June 2023
The Russian government plans to significantly increase public procurement of drugs against diabetes this year despite the existing shortage of funds, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 14 June 2023
In mid-2014, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) faced one of the most daunting economic development challenges of its modern history, when crude oil prices collapsed by more than half. 9 June 2023
With evolving patient pathways, advances in technology and surges of new data, traditional commercial models have been disrupted, and the expectations and preferences of healthcare providers (HCPs) have changed. 9 June 2023
Russian pharmaceutical companies will receive additional subsidies from the state for the development of analogues of foreign drugs, as part of the current state plans for the reduction of import dependence in the country’s pharmaceutical sector, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 9 June 2023
GLP1 receptor agonists (GLP1RA) are known as diabetes treatments, but recently they have also doubled as the new generation drugs for overweight/obesity. 5 June 2023
As the crowds descend on Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), The Pharma Letter interviews Eisai chief medical officer Kirk Shepard about his firm’s progress in oncology. 1 June 2023
This year’s meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) kicks off on Friday, with the highly anticipated plenary session taking place on Sunday. 31 May 2023
Even as Tariq Ahmad, UK Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks in Delhi on Monday, and discussed the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Indian pharmaceutical companies have joined forces to urge the government to maintain a strong stance on the Patents Act as it negotiates FTAs with key global partners. 30 May 2023
In an effort to decrease pharmaceutical companies profiteering, India's National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has said the ceiling price of off-patent pharmaceuticals will be slashed by 50%. 26 May 2023
Ichthyosis is a heterogenous group of disorders characterized by dry, itchy skin that appears scaly and rough like fish scales.1,2 The first case of ichthyosis was described 24 May 2023
Leading Russian drugmakers have called on the state to simplify the launch of their generics to the domestic market by reducing the number of so-called evergreen patents of global majors, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. 22 May 2023
German pharma major Bayer has filed a lawsuit against the Russian manufacturer of generic drugs Medisorb, The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent reports. 19 May 2023
A pre-clinical stage biopharmaceutical group developing new medicines and treatments to treat blood and autoimmune disease and to bring the curative power of bone marrow transplantation to a greater number of patients suffering from otherwise incurable life-threatening diseases.
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