Seagen

Today the company announced that its breast cancer therapy in combination with Roche’s Kadcyla helped extend the time patients lived without their disease progressing in a late-stage trial.

Google cloud

A scientist at Harvard used Google’s cloud platform to clone a supercomputer for a heart disease study, in a novel move that other researchers could follow to get around a shortage of powerful computing resources and speed up their work.

Walgreens

In a 3-0 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, cleared the way for the nation’s largest pharmacy chain to face claims it violated the federal False Claims Act and Virginia state law.

The companies established three multi-year collaborations leveraging Tentarix’s proprietary Tentacle platform to discover and develop multi-functional, conditional protein therapeutics for oncology and inflammatory diseases.

hand shake

Following its Scorpion Capital controversy in March, Harmony Biosciences is seeking to deepen its pipeline with an acquisition of Zynerba Pharmaceuticals’ cannabinoid therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Amazon

Today the company said its online pharmacy will automatically apply manufacturer-sponsored coupons to more than 15 insulin and diabetes medicines to help patients access discounts pledged by the drug industry.

Pfizer

The health regulator’s decision allows use of the therapy, branded as Elrexfio, in patients with multiple myeloma that is hard to treat or has come back after receiving four or more prior lines of certain classes of treatments.

T-cells

The company announced Monday with its second-quarter earnings that the regulator has officially halted the Phase I study after a child with acute myeloid leukemia died following treatment.

Keytruda

As the public’s interest in COVID-19 products continues to wane and the autoimmune medicine Humira settles into life without exclusivity, the anti-cancer agent Keytruda is set to rule the drug marketplace for years to come.

FDA

Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine candidate will have to wait three more months for a decision from the regulator, potentially giving rival Bavarian Nordic additional time to catch up.