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Nine months out from landing an additional $35 million in seed funding, Relation has more news – a big pharma collaboration. The group has announced a $45 million upfront deal, including a $15 million equity investment with UK pharma group GSK. 13 December 2024
Biotechnology
Johnson & Johnson has made significant strides in multiple myeloma treatment, with breakthroughs in targeted therapies like CAR-T and bispecific antibodies. At the 2024 ASH meeting, J&J aims to showcase progress, with a goal of achieving a functional cure for multiple myeloma. 28 November 2024
Pharmaceutical
Germany's Merck has spent more than 25 years researching and developing solutions for advancing multiple sclerosis (MS) care. 21 November 2024
Biotechnology
German biotech CatalYm has followed up a groundbreaking 2023 with an impressive 2024. 19 November 2024
Biotechnology
This week, we discuss a novel AI-driven approach to drug development, and its potential to transform the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. 14 November 2024
Biotechnology
Where once the state of play in the cell and gene therapy space was mostly limited to hope and hype around what might be to come, this is increasingly being replaced by action, on-market therapies and genuine expectation of reaching patients—provided companies can avoid some of the sector’s notorious pitfalls. 16 October 2024
Biotechnology
At last month’s European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) congress in Amsterdam, Novartis presented new early and long-term Phase III data for remibrutinib in chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). 14 October 2024
Pharmaceutical
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
Pharmaceutical
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
Pharmaceutical
Accord Healthcare might not be as well-known as certain preeminent pharma corporations in the UK and Europe, but you would struggle to find any company making a greater contribution to the production and supply of medicines across the continent. 14 August 2024
Pharmaceutical
Plenty of companies in the pharmaceutical industry talk the talk when it comes to focusing on patients. 6 August 2024
Biotechnology
It is not every day that an Italian biotech company raises 23 million euros ($24.7 million) in a Series A financing. 17 June 2024
Pharmaceutical
Privately-held company GAIA has had more than a front-row seat to observe the arrival of digital therapeutics and applications of AI in pharma over the past quarter century. 4 June 2024
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With a steady flow of oncology results emerging from the ongoing ASCO meeting, a company such as Pierre Fabre, which does not have major data to present, might not usually claim the spotlight. 3 June 2024
Biotechnology
Marc de Garidel, chief executive of French clinical-stage biotech Abivax (Nasdaq: ABVX), has good reason for his belief in the company’s pioneering lead asset, obefazimod. 13 May 2024
Pharmaceutical
A Q&A with the man who heads the UK business of the privately-held Italian drugmaker. 3 May 2024
Pharmaceutical
Privately-held Isotope Technologies Munich (ITM) is not just the radiopharmaceutical company that can do it all - from manufacturing and supplying medical radioisotopes to developing a broad precision oncology pipeline, including two Phase III studies. 26 April 2024
Biotechnology
German firm Tubulis has just announced a 128 million euros ($138.8 million) Series B2 financing. 15 March 2024
Pharmaceutical
Staying true to her values is not a secondary consideration for Dr Dennise Broderick in her career and leadership of Galen, but rather is front and central to every action she takes. 7 March 2024
Biotechnology
Since the approval of the first CAR-T in 2017, T cell therapies have revolutionized the treatment of some blood cancers, and are one of the few cancer treatments to drive cures. 12 February 2024
Biotechnology
The Pharma Letter interviewed chief executive Dr Thomas Taapken about Epigenomics’ lead product, increasing revenue and global presence. 1 April 2014
Pharmaceutical
As health care budgets are squeezed worldwide and access issues continue to make the headlines, the price of a new drug has never been more important. The Pharma Letter spoke to Arnaud Grunwald, Model N’s director of global pricing about how it can help pharma companies protect their revenue. 20 March 2014
Biotechnology
In an interview with The Pharma Letter, CEO Michael Forer discusses ADC Therapeutics' developing pipeline and intentions to take multiple proprietary ADCs into clinical development. 19 March 2014
Biotechnology
The Pharma Letter interviewed chief executive Darren Kelly about Fibrotech’s ethos and its lead product, FT011, an antifibrotic to prevent the tissue fibrosis associated with diabetic nephropathy. 18 March 2014
Pharmaceutical
The president of pharma giant Merck & Co’s (NYSE: MRK) operations in Europe and Canada Bruno Strigini spoke about pharma innovation in action at The Economist’s Pharma Summit in London on Thursday. 17 March 2014
Pharmaceutical
Health care is a human right and the pharma industry must evolve to meet future challenges, claims Elias Zerhouni, president of Global R&D at French drug major Sanofi. 14 March 2014
Pharmaceutical
The way pharma works needs to change with an increasing focus on collaborations, sharing data and access to medicines, according to a panel discussion at The Economist’s Pharma Summit in London yesterday. 14 March 2014
Pharmaceutical
The pharmaceutical market is changing, says Georg Toufar, chief marketing officer of Mundipharma International, in an exclusive article for The Pharma Letter, providing some insight on how to deal with these changes. 11 February 2014
Pharmaceutical
‘Momentum’ is the word which best describes 2013, according to AstraZeneca’s chief executive Pascal Soriot who commented on the firm’s year-end results at a media briefing in London this morning. 6 February 2014
Biotechnology
A UK-based mobile human monitoring company is making waves in health care as it aims to revolutionize the way clinical trial data is collected. 4 February 2014
Pharmaceutical
Global HIV company Viiv Healthcare has launched its first new treatment option for people with HIV today. 3 February 2014
Pharmaceutical
Knowledge is the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical sector. From raw experimental data to complex chemical formulae, from carefully regulated drug trials to patented IP (intellectual property) – without information the industry couldn’t survive, says Phil Greenwood, director, information management and business outsourcing at information management firm Iron Mountain. 28 January 2014
Pharmaceutical
When it comes to being different, privately-owned Ferring Pharma is proud of its culture of enterprise driven by science, not profit. 18 December 2013
Biotechnology
A biotech company’s dream 14-year journey from small start-up to an $886 million takeover bid provided inspiration to UK life science companies at the Genesis 2013 conference. 16 December 2013
Pharmaceutical
Secrets of how Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca arranged a behind-the-scenes deal to buy Amylin were revealed at the Genesis 2013 conference in London on Thursday. 16 December 2013
Biotechnology
The UK’s brightest bioscience companies met in London for the One Nucleus Genesis 2013 conference on Thursday. 16 December 2013
Generics
Eyal Desheh, acting president and chief executive of the world’s largest generics maker Teva (NYSE: TEVA), told delegates at the Financial Times Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference in London yesterday that the company is “prepared” for the patent loss of Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) next year. 5 December 2013
Pharmaceutical
A Twitter debate was sparked yesterday after the Financial Times Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference questioned its audience about the gaps in the industry’s skills base. 4 December 2013
Pharmaceutical
The chair of the UK’s regulatory body the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence shared his view of the drug approvals process at the Financial Times Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference in London yesterday. 4 December 2013
Pharmaceutical
Most patients don’t appreciate the pharma companies that save their lives, Bayer chairman Marijn Dekkers told the Financial Times Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference in London today. 3 December 2013
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