Novartis leads and Bristol lags on novel drug approvals
Big pharma delivered 76 novel medicines to the market over the past five years, but some companies contributed more than others.
Go or no go? Ardelyx and Chemocentryx among those waiting FDA decisions
Big regulatory events for July include a panel for Fibrogen's roxadustat and decision time for Albireo; elsewhere, Jak inhibitor delays could persist.
Key third-quarter readouts for big pharma
Abbvie expects more Rinvoq data in ulcerative colitis while Astrazeneca takes on myasthenia gravis, and gene therapy is in play for Pfizer and Roche.
Bristol and Glaxo’s oncology deals vault into the top five
Two huge up-front fees this week, for an anti-Tigit MAb and an antibody-drug conjugate, show that early-stage oncology assets are still hot.
Biogen deals the tau pipeline another blow
The failure of gosuranemab could bode ill for Abbvie’s ABBV-8E12 in particular.
Go or no go? Aducanumab’s day of reckoning
Next month the FDA will determine Biogen’s fate in Alzheimer’s, while Ascendis and Novo Nordisk also await Pdufa decisions.
Roche remains big pharma’s biggest R&D spender
As Covid-19 spending pushes the sector’s R&D bill ever higher, Lilly continues to plough the most back in as Sanofi applies the brakes.
