Moderna shares rose 8% in morning trade on Tuesday after the company’s individualized cancer vaccine developed with Merck showed positive response in an early-stage trial in patients with a type of head and neck cancer.
Two biotechs, Nvelop Therapeutics and Seaport Therapeutics, emerged from stealth Tuesday with $100 million in financing as they look to target the neuropsychiatric and gene editing spaces, respectively.
Novartis is to cut up to 680 jobs in its development organization, which helps bring its drugs to market, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company said on Tuesday.
Pfizer on Tuesday unveiled top-line data from its Phase III MONeT trial, showing that its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Abrysvo could induce immune protection in adults 18 to 59 years of age.
The European Medicines Agency is set to review several diabetes and weight-loss treatments this week in connection with potential increased risk of suicidal ideation and self-harm, according to a draft agenda document of the agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee.
Merck has bought biotech startup Abceutics in a bid to develop safer antibody-drug conjugates and minimize their off-target effects on healthy cells, according to a Friday announcement from the University at Buffalo, whose laboratory created the spin-off company.
Bristol Myers Squibb on Saturday unveiled interim data from the Phase III open-label EMERGENT-4 study, showing that the investigational antipsychotic KarXT (xanomeline and trospium) can elicit significant and sustained symptom improvement in patients with schizophrenia.
Supernus Pharmaceuticals said on Monday the U.S. FDA declined to approve its drug-device combination to treat movement-related symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, sending its shares down 9% in early trade.
The American College of Cardiology’s 73rd Annual Scientific Session & Expo (ACC24) took place over the weekend in Atlanta, spotlighting the latest and most impactful innovations in the field of cardiovascular care.
Nearly a third of patients with advanced liver cancer who received a personalized vaccine developed by Geneos Therapeutics along with an immunotherapy drug in a small, early trial saw their tumors shrink, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.