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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of biotech innovation can compete on the world stage, AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) chief executive Pascal Soriot told the Financial Times Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference in London today. 3 December 2013
Mergers and acquisitions are common – 111 M&As took place in the UK in the second quarter of 2013 alone – yet there is no ‘one-size fits all’ formula to ensure smooth transitions, writes Chris Molloy, chief executive at RSA, executive search and interim management experts to the life sciences industry. 22 October 2013
UK-based cancer therapeutics firm Scancell, developer of novel immunotherapies, gathered its investors in London for an update on October 1. 7 October 2013
Fresh from their trip to the European Respiratory Society annual congress in Barcelona, Verona Pharma’s research team presented their results to a captive audience, including The Pharma Letter’s Sophie Flowers, in London on Monday. 20 September 2013
One of the UK's leading pharma companies has expressed its support for the Department of Health's five year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy. 13 September 2013
Europe is leading the way when it comes to transparency in clinical trials data, says regulatory lawyer Vincenzo Salvatore, senior counsel at Sidley Austin. 12 September 2013
As patent expiration becomes an increasing hurdle for pharma companies worldwide, The Pharma Letter spoke to patent attorney Gareth Williams, a partner at Marks & Clerk solicitors in Cambridge, UK, about why patents in other sectors outnumber those in pharma and biotech, why you can't patent DNA in the USA and how the future of patents in Europe will be interesting. 18 July 2013