BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 11, 2025

Published June 11, 2025 Ben Fidler Senior Editor post share post print email license The FDA on June 11, 2025 approved Nuvation's Ibtrozi for ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer. Sanofi’s $9.1 Sanofi’s $9.1

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 10, 2025

Published July 10, 2025 Ben Fidler Senior Editor post share post print email license Soleno Therapeutics on July 10, 2025 announced preliminary sales for its new Prader-Willi Syndrome drug Vykat. Until Vykat came along, though, no drug therapies were specifically approved to curb the all-consuming hunger that hallmarks the condition.

Drugs

Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But commitment to neuroscience drug development is critically important given the significant unmet medical needs and the ways in which patients, caregivers, and families suffer. In other cases, well-established biomarker profiles enable patient enrichment strategies in early-stage clinical development.

Therapies

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 23, 2025

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Treatment

LifeSciVC

JULY 17, 2024

By Mike Cloonan, Chief Executive Officer of Sionna Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC The drug development process in rare diseases is rife with challenges especially when companies target significant differentiation or first-in-class targets.

Clinical Research

Drug Target Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Initial works from the lab concentrated on exploring the role of replicative stress in cancer and ageing, for which the group combined cell biology, mouse models and drug development projects. Among other discoveries, the group developed inhibitors of the ATR kinase and showed their potential for cancer therapy.

RNA

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Harbour BioMed (HBM) announced with Utrecht University on Monday that they have licensed their fully human SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody, 47D11, and its program to AbbVie. AbbVie has initiated a Phase I clinical trial of the antibody, and it will conduct the initial clinical program in the U.S.

Licensing

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

During clinical development, new chemical entities (NCEs) require an absorption, metabolism, and excretion (AME) study.

Clinical Trials

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

JUNE 14, 2016

Several years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that drug developers take special care to show that potential drugs to treat diabetes don’t adversely affect the cardiovascular system [1]. 5] Clinical development success rates for investigational drugs. Novo Nordisk.

Drugs

The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 18, 2020

DUBLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Inflection Biosciences Ltd , a company developing innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Gregory I. Greg possesses a wealth of experience in developing new cancer therapeutics across multiple U.S. Berk, MD, to its Board of Directors.

Small Molecule

LifeSciVC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rise of the best-in-class biologics plays: Are you looking to in-license or invest in “de-risked” biology that is already in the clinic? Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t caveat that we still see many clinical failures even for “de-risked” biology, as nothing is ever truly low-risk in our industry. Join the club.

Small Molecule

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

Biond Biologics announced today that it has entered into a potentially $1 billion global licensing agreement with Sanofi to take a joint stab at defeating advanced forms of cancer with a more comprehensive and expedited approach to immuno-oncology. . Keitma/Shutterstock.

Immune Response

The Pharma Data

JUNE 28, 2021

The companies acquired by Bayer, Noria and PSMA Therapeutics, have exclusive world-wide rights to technology licensed from Weill Cornell Medicine (New York, NY, USA) and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA). Xofigo is currently under further evaluation in a broad clinical development program in prostate cancer and beyond.

Small Molecule

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

JANUARY 4, 2023

The purpose of these town halls are to discuss topics related to OTAT-regulated products, engage with product development stakeholders, and to provide information to help stakeholders to help advance drug development. Manufacturers who hold a biological license should report manufacturing deviations to the FDA per 21 CFR 600.14.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MindMed (NEO: MMED), (OTCQB: MMEDF), (DE: MMQ), a leading psychedelic medicine biotech company today announced the addition of Robert Barrow , an accomplished pharmaceutical executive, as Chief Development Officer. We are excited to attract such top tier talent from the psychedelic drug development community.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 27, 2021

ET ) to discuss the results and next steps in clinical development of BI-1206. technology platform simultaneously identifies both targets and the antibodies that bind to them, generating many promising new drug candidates to fuel the Company’s own clinical development pipeline or for additional licensing and partnering.

Pharmaceuticals

Metabolite Tales Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Roquinimex (Linomide), a drug developed by Pfizer for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, is structurally related to laquinimod. Figure 3: Roquinimex (linomide) Clinical development of both laquinimod and roquinimex was halted due to serious cardiovascular events. In a 2021 publication, Rothhammer et al.

International

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

Fast Track designation facilitates the development and expedites the review of drugs that are intended to treat serious and life-threatening conditions and show the potential to fill an unmet medical need. Brilacidin for UP/UPS was licensed to Alfasigma S.p.A.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

Gilead will be responsible for conducting a Phase 1 study for the HIV-specific therapeutic vaccine and holds an exclusive option under the collaboration to obtain an exclusive license to develop and commercialize the HIV-specific therapeutic vaccine beyond Phase 1. This press release features multimedia.

Vaccine

Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Could you give us an overview of IRLAB’s current drug development pipeline? IRL1117 is expected to be ready to move into clinical development at the end of 2024/first half 2025.

Disease

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

According to the FDA, the purpose of Fast Track designation is to get important new drugs to patients earlier by facilitating the development, and expediting the review, of drugs to treat serious conditions and fill an unmet medical need. Commenting on the announcement, Daniel Gruskin, M.D., About LogicBio Therapeutics.

FDA

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 18, 2021

In-licensed from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany , atacicept has been studied previously in autoimmune diseases and shown to reduce autoantibodies in a dose-dependent fashion with once-weekly subcutaneous dosing and has a well-established and acceptable clinical safety profile.

Disease

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 8, 2020

AbCellera’s AI-powered antibody discovery platform speeds the otherwise lengthy and grueling process by analyzing the database of natural immune systems to find antibodies that can be developed into drugs. Tackle the toughest problems in drug development.” The promise to partners is to “move quickly. Reduce cost.

RNA

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 4, 2021

We believe our allogenic CAR-T platform is significantly stronger with chPD1 target licensed from Longwood University. Barber’s work will give Kiromic a significant acceleration in the clinical development of its therapy platform and an even more significant advantage over its competitors. “We believe Prof.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, infectious diseases and rare diseases.

Hospitals

Molecule Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

The university then licenses the IP to an existing pharmaceutical company or a biotech startup, which takes on Investigational New Drug (IND) enabling studies. These studies involve more in vivo testing in increasingly larger animals to evaluate safety and efficacy.

Engineering

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Clinical Development at Regeneron and lead author of the publication. patients under an Emergency Use Authorization, and we also continue a robust clinical development program.” “The investigational cocktail is now available to indicated high-risk U.S.

Hospitals

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 15, 2020

(NASDAQ/TASE: BLRX) is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology. The Company’s business model is to in-license novel compounds, develop them through clinical stages, and then partner with pharmaceutical companies for further clinical development and/or commercialization.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

GeneTx Biotherapeutics LLC is a startup biotechnology company singularly focused on developing and commercializing a safe and effective antisense therapeutic for the treatment of Angelman syndrome. GeneTx licensed the rights to antisense technology intellectual property from the Texas A&M University System in December 2017.

Protein Expression

The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 5, 2020

REGN5458 and odronextamab are currently under clinical development, and their safety and efficacy have not been evaluated by any regulatory authority. Additionally, Regeneron bispecifics are manufactured using similar approaches used for human monoclonal antibody medicines, yielding similar properties and pharmacokinetics.

Production

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Shah previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of BioMotiv, an accelerator company aligned with the Harrington Project for Discovery & Development, a U.S. drug development initiative from 2012 to February 2019. About MultiStem ®.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Clinical Development at Regeneron. . “We will submit detailed results from this trial for publication in order to share insights with the public health and medical communities,” said David Weinreich, M.D.,

Virus

Advarra

AUGUST 10, 2023

Given the relatively small populations affected by any one rare disease or condition, a pharmaceutical company developing an orphan drug may reasonably expect the final approved drug to generate relatively small sales (when compared with the drug development costs) and consequently incur a financial loss.

Drug Development

The Pharma Data

JUNE 2, 2022

Boehringer Ingelheim and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) today announced a global licensing agreement under which Boehringer Ingelheim will obtain exclusive worldwide rights to research, develop and commercialize products based on a panel of innovative, tumor-specific antibodies from A*STAR.

Licensing

Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

However, my goal was all the time to work with drug development in the pharma industry, so I moved on and started that journey in 1992 when I took on a role as Clinical Research Manager at AstraHässle, a mid-size Swedish pharma company. I experienced challenges in cultural differences working with US, UK, Japan, and China.

Pharma Companies

The Pharma Data

JANUARY 12, 2021

Marianne De Backer, Head of Business Development & Licensing in Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division, pictured above. Each of the companies met strict criteria that includes assets in clinical development, an industry-leading platform and in-house manufacturing capabilities. “We Photo courtesy of Bayer.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

MAY 31, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Dupixent® (dupilumab) to treat adults with prurigo nodularis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes extreme itch and skin lesions. The target action date for the FDA decision is September 30, 2022.

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