The U.S. government exercised an option for an additional 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, bringing the total number of doses to be supplied by the companies to the United States to 300 million.
Bristol Myers Takes $470 Million Write-off and Scraps Orva-Cel CAR-T Program
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), Biologics License Application (BLA), Bristol Myers Squibb, Business, CAR-T Therapy, Clinical Trials, PDUFA, R&D, Relapsed Or Refractory (R/R) Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL), Therapeutics, Write-offsBristol Myers Squibb reported that the company was abandoning the BCMA CAR-T therapy orva-cel and taking a $470 million write-off.
CES: Real-Life Technology Applications Transforming Healthcare Today and Tomorrow
Business, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Consumers, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Digital Health, Digital therapeutics, Healthcare Communications Agencies, Marketing & Advertising, Mobile Devices, Telemedicine, Trade Shows, Video Games, WearablesAmanda Powers-Han, Senior Partner and Chief Marketing Officer for Greater Than One, explores some real-life technology applications that are transforming healthcare today and tomorrow.
Switzerland-based AC Immune SA announced positive interim results from the company’s ongoing Phase Ib/IIa clinical trial of ACI-35.030 for Alzheimer’s disease.
The cancer drugmaker pled guilty of violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by failing to provide certain records to investigators in federal court.
Merck & Co. Inc. was in talks with governments and companies to potentially help with manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines that have been already authorized.
AstraZeneca expects to produce more than 100 million doses of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine – developed with Oxford University – during February, ramping up to more than 200 million a month by April, Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said.
AbbVie announced the company’s latest chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell investment, a collaboration with Caribou Biosciences worth $40 million up front in cash and equity to develop two CRISPR-edited cell therapies against AbbVie-specified targets.
Belgo-Dutch biotech Galapagos NV and U.S. partner Gilead Sciences Inc. will discontinue late-stage trials testing their experimental drug ziritaxestat in patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
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