Bristol-Myers wins shareholder backing for Celgene buyout

While Bristol-Myers executives successfully beat back Starboard and Wellington's efforts to derail the deal, the questions raised by that opposition remain. By buying Celgene, Bristol-Myers...

Audentes lays down marker in muscular dystrophy

Audentes Therapeutics is trying to show Sarepta isn't the only game in town when it comes to DMD. The collaboration with Nationwide's Children Hospital in...

Biogen points to M&A power as Wall Street presses for less risky programs

Dive Insight: Biogen took the most severe blow in its history last month, losing more than $20 billion in market capitalization on the announcement that the...

Pharma returns on R&D ebb to new low, Deloitte finds

Deloitte's annual report on R&D productivity, while limited in scope, is an indicator of the challenges faced by large pharmaceutical firms in bringing new...
Over more than three decades at the Food and Drug Administration, Janet Woodcock has seen the biotech industry mature from the early days of...
Wednesday's settlement follows last month's conviction of five former Insys executives, including the company's founder John Kapoor, for their involvement in bribing physicians to...
Denali started 2018 with one research agreement with Takeda and is now ending the year with another big pharma collaboration. The Takeda deal, announced in...

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Once ‘bodies for hire,’ CROs are finding a new...

Drugmakers want better designed, less expensive clinical trials. The demand is so great that contract research providers, often called CROs, are building out their...

Medicare proposes raising CAR-T pay, but reimbursement solution years...

CAR-T therapies represent a significant clinical advance for patients with certain types of advanced lymphoma. In clinical testing, Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel)...

Roche acknowledges the obvious, extends Spark buyout deadline

The Securities and Exchange Commission filings that Spark released Monday confirm what became apparent when the FTC announced it was subjecting the Roche buyout...

In R&D, small biotechs hold their own against big...

Despite spending billions on R&D, big pharma doesn't punch its weight in discovering the new molecules that eventually make it to market. Instead, it's...

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Celgene wins approval for drug key to Bristol buyout

Approval of Inrebic, which was previously known as fedratinib, is the first domino to fall in Bristol-Myers bet on Celgene's product pipeline. 

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