Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, a Johnson & Johnson company, announced the decision to halt development of its hepatitis C treatment combination JNJ-4178.
Gilead Sciences agreed to buy Kite Pharma in a nearly $12 billion deal as it looks to replace flagging sales from hepatitis C drugs via cancer immunotherapies.
The hepatitis C market got more crowded after the FDA approved AbbVie’s Mavyret, a drug that will treat all types of HCV in an eight-week time frame.
The FDA approved updated labeling for Gilead Sciences’ chronic hepatitis C virus drug Epclusa to include use in patients co-infected with HIV.
The biotech industry did OK in July 2017. The NYSE ARCA Biotech Index and the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (ETF) grew about 1.9 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively last month. There have been 26 new molecular entity approvals so far this year. With that figure in mind, here are eight companies looking at PDUFA dates in August 2017.
AbbVie’s biologic therapy Humira for autoimmune disorders continues to dominate the sales landscape; Gilead’s once-daily hepatitis C treatment Harvoni in 2016 repeated its performance as the world’s second-best-selling prescription medicine.
Just like 2016 and the year before, specialty drugs dominate the 2017 list of top performers in the most recent first year after launch class.
U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc. reported Q2 2017 earnings that edged past analysts’ expectations, helped by robust demand for the company’s flagship RA drug Humira.
The FDA approved Gilead Sciences’ Vosevi, an oral medicine for the re-treatment of chronic HCV.
Genotyping of patients with advanced cirrhosis from hepatitis C virus could help health-care professionals predict the likelihood of improvement after successful hepatitis C treatment, thus minimizing the need for liver transplants. This study was presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2017.