Novartis chief defends cell, gene therapy push

By most measures, Novartis enjoyed a positive start to 2019. Drug sales rose by 5% in dollar terms, lifted by strong performances from the Swiss...

$300M loan boosts launch of TherapeuticsMD hot flash pill

TherapeuticsMD decided against diluting its shareholders again in order to get Bijuva (estradiol and progesterone) and Annovera (segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol) off the ground. The...

Wave delays key data readout for Huntington’s therapy

Investors reacted negatively to the pushed-back readouts, sending shares of the Singapore-based biotech down nearly 20% between Tuesday's market close and Wednesday's. Wall Street analysts, meanwhile,...

Pfizer, Novartis partner in hunt to find drugs for NASH

Neither Pfizer or Novartis are among the handful of companies at the leading edge of NASH drug development, which has yet to advance a...
While BioMarin and Spark remain out in front, Sangamo's data appear strong enough to warrant consideration of the biotech's therapy in the discussion of...
MacroGenics stock took a beating Tuesday, dropping far more than any other biotech on the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index as the ASCO conference closed....
Over more than three decades at the Food and Drug Administration, Janet Woodcock has seen the biotech industry mature from the early days of...

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Sarepta may have seen off another rival in Wave

Wave Life Sciences has joined the biopharma sector's gold rush to treat DMD, a genetic disorder that causes progressive musculoskeletal disability in boys. So far,...

Aducanumab’s failure puts pressure on field to look beyond...

The plaques are considered hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, formed in the brain from sticky clusters of a misfolded protein fragment called beta-amyloid. For the past...

Safety setback for Pfizer, Lilly pain drug should have...

The U.S. opioid crisis breathed new life into clinical development of the nerve-growth factor (NGF) inhibitors tanezumab and fasinumab. The drug class had been...

Biogen points to M&A power as Wall Street presses...

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...

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