High Point, North Carolina-based vTv Therapeutics announced positive results from a mechanistic study of TTP399 in type 1 diabetes patients. 

Shares of Provention Bio Inc. plunged in trading after a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee narrowly supported the company’s diabetes prevention drug, teplizumab.

The U.S. FDA denied Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s appeal against the rejection of the add-on treatment Zynquista for type 1 diabetes, marking the company’s third major setback during 2019.

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. said France’s Sanofi SA will pay the Texas-based drugmaker $260 million for the termination of their partnership to develop the diabetes drug Zynquista.