The deal, which is expected to close by April 15, 2024, includes the acquisition of insulin brands Basalog and Insugen which Eris said will help its diabetes treatment franchise reach 10 billion rupees in revenue, without specifying a timeline.
The collaboration will include the development of computational pathology algorithms powered by AI and machine learning (ML) that connect baseline pathology data, such as molecular tumor profiles, with clinical data, such as patient outcomes, to enable better patient identification, stratification, and selection for clinical trials.
In a briefing document for Thursday’s advisory committee meeting, the FDA pointed to efficacy and safety issues with Geron’s New Drug Application for imetelstat in myelodysplastic syndromes.
Staff reviewers said that the pattern of early deaths observed in patients treated with both the therapies in their respective trials raised uncertainty about the treatments’ overall survival benefit in patients.
Eli Lilly has partnered with Amazon Pharmacy to help fill online orders of its obesity drug Zepbound—as well as migraine and diabetes medicines—placed through the pharma’s online portal LillyDirect.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals said on Wednesday its experimental drug to treat a type of fatty liver disease met the main goal of reducing inflammation of the critical organ in a mid-stage trial.
The company, whose products includes Cetaphil, a product for damaged and sensitive skin, as well as fillers and skin creams, early on Wednesday announced a price range of 49 to 53 Swiss francs for its flotation – likely to be one of the biggest in Europe this year.
Merck & Co said it plans to conduct clinical trials testing its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil 9 to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single-dose regimen compared to the approved three-dose regimen.
An unmet need in the contraceptive field is availability and access for patients. Almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the United States annually are unintended, so the approval of Opill to be sold over the counter without a prescription allows increased accessibility, promoting timely use and reducing barriers to family planning, according to GlobalData.
The injectable drug imetelstat was being studied in patients with lower risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a type of blood cancer, which requires frequent blood transfusions for managing anemia.
