The tenth annual Pharmaceutical Innovation Index, released April 21, sees Eli Lilly top the industry for the first time. The Pharmaceutical Invention Index, a ranking of the industry’s best pipelines, rated Bristol Myers Squibb as No. 1.
GlaxoSmithKline halted two mid-stage studies assessing feladilimab combined with Merck’s Keytruda as a potential treatment in different oncology settings.
Merck is discontinuing development of MK-7710 (formerly known as CD24Fc), a Phase III Covid-19 therapeutic asset acquired from OncoImmune during November 2020.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) to Merck for the company’s supplemental Biologics License Application for Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.
Amathus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company working on small molecule modulators across diverse genetically defined diseases, entered into a strategic collaboration with Merck to develop novel small molecule treatment candidates for neurodegenerative diseases.
The United States plans to double the country’s order of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, procuring an additional 100 million doses, a White House official said on March 10.
U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. said on March 6 the experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir the company is developing with Ridgeback Bio showed a quicker reduction in infectious virus in its phase 2a study among participants with early Covid-19.
The United States will have enough Covid-19 vaccine for every American adult by the end of May, President Joe Biden said on March 2 after Merck & Co. agreed to make rival Johnson & Johnson’s inoculation.
Merck entered into multiple agreements to support efforts to expand manufacturing capacity and supply of SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 medicines and vaccines.
Merck & Co. will help make rival Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine in order to boost the slower-than-promised production of the one-dose shot, U.S. President Joe Biden said on March 2.
