BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 23, 2025

Understanding GLP-1 drugs GLP-1, or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor modulators, mimic natural hormones that regulate insulin and appetite. This shift raises ethical questions around prioritizing supply for diabetes patients versus those seeking treatment for obesity or cosmetic weight loss. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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MARCH 17, 2025

Neuropsychiatric treatment is on the verge of a major transformation. Neuropsychiatric disorders, affecting millions worldwide, disrupt the brain’s intricate processes of mood regulation, cognition and behaviour. “Zelquistinel is a positive modulator of NMDA receptors,” Donello explains.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An innovative stem cell-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels and reduce dependence on daily insulin injections, according to new clinical trial results from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By: Juliane Mills, Senior Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease The rise of patient-led clinical research, particularly in rare disease, represents a significant shift in the clinical trial landscape. Why Is There an Increase in Patient-Led Rare Disease Research?

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Though they do positively impact patients’ quality of life and hemodynamic parameters, these treatments — prostacyclin analogs and receptor agonists, phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors, endothelin-receptor antagonists, and cGMP activators — have shown limited beneficial effects on survival and disease progression.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Developing treatments for individuals living with rare diseases is critical, but orphan drug development is laden with unique obstacles that necessitate innovative, multifaceted approaches. This limited pool poses significant barriers to conducting statistically significant studies and validating the efficacy and safety of new treatments.

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MAY 10, 2024

By: Christine Moore, PhD, Vice President, Neuroscience, Scientific Solutions Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) face a heightened risk of substance abuse and suicide, as well as substantial delays in receiving treatment.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

AUGUST 9, 2024

Authors: Matt Cooper, PhD, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Oncology; Megan Morrison, Vice President, Asia Pacific Strategy Lead Adaptive trial designs have become essential in oncology, offering a flexible and efficient approach for conducting clinical trials.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Despite their exciting potential, the smooth operation of cell therapy development trials requires extraordinary orchestration, perfectly aligning the product and patient journeys. While clinical supply is essential to any successful trial, autologous cell therapy trials occupy the far end of the spectrum regarding risk tolerance.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 9, 2025

A New Treatment Option for a Debilitating Joint Tumor TGCT is a rare, debilitating condition that primarily affects young and middle-aged adults, often striking individuals in their prime working years. Pimicotinib: A Promising CSF-1R Inhibitor Pimicotinib is an investigational small molecule developed by Abbisko Therapeutics Co.,

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 30, 2025

It involves a dynamic and often unpredictable process where every stage, from target identification to clinical trials, generates vast amounts of data. Additionally, AI-driven predictive modelling can shorten the preclinical phase by simulating biological responses, leading to more targeted and efficient clinical trials. The result?

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JULY 4, 2023

These therapies have broadened treatment options for patients to expand beyond the more traditional small molecule drug alternatives. ADCs have the potential to redress the poor balance between safety and efficacy seen with traditional cancer treatment options. 3D rendering of Antibody Drug Conjugate Molecules.

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APRIL 3, 2024

By: Sue Batchelor, Executive Director, Oncology Project Management Radiopharmaceuticals represent a cutting-edge frontier in oncology treatment, offering the promise of highly targeted therapy with the potential to revolutionize cancer care. Are you aware of the challenges you must address for a successful radiopharmaceutical trial?

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Drug Target Review

MARCH 4, 2025

Obesity treatment is undergoing a major shift, much like the advances seen in cancer care. Phenomix Sciences , led by CEO Mark Bagnall, is using precision medicine to make treatments more targeted and effective. Phenomix Sciences, built on over a decade of clinical research at the Mayo Clinic, is disrupting this outdated approach.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

JULY 3, 2025

However, the FDA’s recent decision to remove the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) requirements for certain approved Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapies could dramatically shift these numbers, making life-saving treatments more accessible to those in need.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 19, 2025

As the limitations of current treatments become increasingly clear, researchers are exploring new, safer approaches. His focus, however, is on addressing a critical gap in medicine: the lack of safe, non-addictive pain treatments – a challenge that has driven the development of SRP-001. “As Unlike the newly approved NaV1.8

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Buzhong Yiqi decoction regulated the PI3K-AKT signaling pathway in non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells. The Buzhong Yiqi decoction (BZYQD), traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula, has been reported to exhibit clinical efficacy in the treatment of NSCLC. Nevertheless, the underlying molecular mechanism remains elusive.

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DrugBank

JULY 8, 2024

Revolutionizing Treatment Through the Skin with Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems The human skin, often perceived as a passive barrier to the external environment, holds potential as a route for drug administration. This membrane regulates the diffusion of the drug from the reservoir into the skin.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 11, 2025

Drug development faces significant challenges: long timelines, high costs , complex processes and low probabilities of success (PoS), exacerbated by the shift towards more complex molecules, biologics and cell and gene therapies, hindering patient access to vital treatments. Highlighting data integration. This is an AI generated image.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

AUGUST 23, 2023

Patients are the backbone of clinical trials, playing an essential role in the drug development process. This engagement is often less understood and is underutilized by sponsors, meaning a significant element of the trial and drug experience is missed during sponsor engagement with the FDA.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 7, 2024

Tobolowsky & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & David B. Moreover, DMCs are being used in trials of modest size and in the context of increased globalization of medical product development. In another update, the recent draft guidance added “entities reviewing safety data” and adaptation committees.

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Advarra

MARCH 6, 2025

For more than 35 years, Advarra has been committed to protecting the rights and welfare of clinical trial participants while helping to improve healthcare outcomes, advancing medical knowledge, and bringing innovative, life-extending treatments to market that benefit millions of patients worldwide.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

In China, the high incidence of solid tumors is driving an urgent need for advanced therapies, spurring the push for new treatment approaches. There has also been an increase in government and regulatory support for CGT trials, in conjunction with an increase in investments for these products to get to market.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 25, 2025

In March 2025 , Regulus announced the successful completion of its Phase 1b multiple-ascending dose clinical trial for farabursen. Additionally, treatment led to improvements in height-adjusted total kidney volume (htTKV) , an established clinical marker that correlates with disease progression in ADPKD.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Cost and complexity go hand-in-hand The rising costs and growing complexity in clinical trials are deeply linked, with patient recruitment, extended timelines and meeting regulatory demands emerging as some of the key drivers. Nearly half (49%) of clinical trial sponsors surveyed identified rising costs as their foremost concern in 2024.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

At the recent World Orphan Drug Congresses (WODC) in Europe and the United States, Worldwide Clinical Trials Derek Ansel , Vice President, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease, facilitated roundtable discussions to explore the operational challenges and ethical barriers surrounding genetic testing.

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ASPET

JULY 19, 2024

However, limited treatment options are available for those with recurrent disease, and there is a need to identify alternative treatment options for the advanced setting. Advanced-stage endometrial cancer patients typically receive a combination of platinum and paclitaxel chemotherapy.

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Advarra

MARCH 7, 2025

Yet, many people are unaware of the essential role of institutional review boards (IRBs) in protecting clinical trial participants by ensuring compliance with human subject protection requirements. Clinical research tests new treatments and therapies to determine their safety, effectiveness, and potential to improve health outcomes.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 23, 2025

As the biotech sector races to improve the tolerability of these revolutionary treatments, Poolbeg Pharma has a novel solution: an oral therapy, POLB 001, to block the development of CRS, by limiting inflammation without affecting the anti-cancer immune responses that are vital for effective immunotherapies.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The FDAs expedited programs are intended to facilitate and advance the development and review of new drugs and biologics to address unmet medical needs in the treatment of serious or life-threatening conditions, such as cancer. Provides the Oncology Dosing Toolkit. Sponsors can request Project Orbis for their applications.

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SugarCone Biotech

JUNE 27, 2025

Let’s dive in… Wave 2: B7-H3 Optimistically named B7-homologue-3, B7-H3, a distant relative of the immune regulatory proteins B7-1 and B7-2, has recently moved into the spotlight - not as an immune regulator but as a target of advanced therapeutic modalities including bispecific antibodies, antibody drug conjugates (ADC) and CAR-T cells.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 26, 2025

FDA Approves Streamlined Monitoring Requirements and REMS Program Removal for Bristol Myers Squibb’s CAR T Cell Therapies Breyanzi and Abecma, Marking Milestone Toward Expanding Access to Cancer Treatment In a significant regulatory development, Bristol Myers Squibb announced that the U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Rapid and substantialimprovement in depressive symptoms achieved by 44% of patients at 2 weeks, 67% at 6 weeks (MADRS response), and sustained with long-term treatment. points at Week 6 (primary timepoint), with AXS-05 treatment. points at Week 6 (primary timepoint), with AXS-05 treatment. NEW YORK, Dec.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

BRAF and downstream mitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitors are combined to treat BRAF-mutated melanoma, for example. Classically, rational drug combinations are designed to target two nodes in the same oncogenic signalling pathway.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

APRIL 29, 2025

On the last day of February every year is Rare Disease Day , a dedicated day to celebrate the rare disease community, including patients, families, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, regulators, and more. The post Rare Disease Day 2025: Rally for Rare Event Recap appeared first on Worldwide Clinical Trials.

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Fierce BioTech

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Logistics For Cell & Gene Therapy Trials: Specific Needs Demand Special Skills Download now to learn more about intricate trial logistics, the importance of expertise, navigating regulations, secure data management, and real case studies like viral vector therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. A specialized provider is essential.

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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Valentine — On November 22, 2022, FDA approved CSL Behring’s BLA for Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec), an AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of adults with Hemophilia B who currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, have current or historical life-threatening hemorrhage, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.

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