MedCity News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Ipsen’s Onivyde is now FDA approved as a first-line treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer, triggering a milestone payment to Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, the drug’s original developer. Merrimack plans to dissolve operations but its shareholders will receive payouts from the Ipsen payment.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Novartis’s €2.7B acquisition of MorphoSys brings two cancer drug candidates, one of which would give the pharmaceutical giant a way to stand apart from other myelofibrosis treatments. In a separate deal, MorphoSys sold to Incyte its rights to a partnered blood cancer drug.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

FDA approval of Takeda Pharmaceutical drug Eohilia introduces a new therapeutic option for patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, inflammation of the esophagus that causes swallowing difficulty. It will compete against Dupixent, a Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals drug already approved for this disorder.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The FDA clinical hold follows a patient death from liver failure that may be associated with zelnecirnon, an experimental Rapt Therapeutics drug. The biotech notes that no other patient has experienced liver problems and this safety signal has not been seen in any other tests of the molecule.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Iovance Biotherapeutics’s Amtagvi is now the first FDA-approved treatment based on type of cell called a tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte. The regulatory nod in advanced melanoma also makes Amtagvi the first cell therapy approved for treating a solid tumor.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Gilead Sciences said an independent review of interim Phase 3 data found the immunotherapy, magrolimab, led to a higher risk of death. Though Gilead is discontinuing further development of the drug in blood cancers, a review is ongoing in solid tumors.

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Zymewire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Skip to a topic Axonis' journey and purpose The impact of the economic client on emerging biopharma The place of Artificial Intelligence in drug development & discovery Working with NASA Relationships with CROs, CDMOs, and other service providers What made you want to start Axonis? sending neurons to space.

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