Tag Archive for: ulcerative colitis (UC)

inch Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by around 37% and suspending its planned Phase I study in autism one week after Takeda withdrew from its multi-year collaboration, the company announced Thursday.

Within the next eight years, more than 3.5 million people in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. With those rising numbers in mind, Bristol Myers Squibb is doubling down on treating the condition with a nearly $2 billion partnership with GentiBio to develop Treg therapies for patients with IBD.

Thursday morning, Takeda reported its quarterly sales ending June 30, 2022. The company reported a 2.4% increase in revenue for the quarter from the same period in 2021, as well as changes to its pipeline, including a decision to drop a cancer therapeutic developed with Turnstone Biologics.

Pfizer and Roivant Sciences unveiled a new company called Priovant Therapeutics to develop and market new therapies for a wide range of autoimmune diseases with high mortality and morbidity rates.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded its first approval in the specific interleukin-23 inhibitor space for Crohn’s disease to AbbVie’s Skyrizi I (risakizumab-rzaa). 

Janssen Pharmaceutical shared positive updates from ongoing trials on candidate therapies for Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) at Digestive Disease Week in San Diego, California.

Nearly one third of patients with ulcerative colitis who received an experimental Pfizer Inc. medicine in a clinical trial were in remission after a year of treatment, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.