Merck sees potential in Peloton
Peloton Therapeutics’ approach to fighting kidney tumours has apparently convinced Merck & Co, which is to pay $1.05bn for the company on the back of relatively…
Asco 2019 – Abstract drop fires the starting gun
Amgen’s KRAS inhibitor, Macrogenics’ breast cancer project and Roche’s entrectinib stand out as the curtain lifts on thousands of abstracts due to be presented at the…
Looking back at April’s data digging and analysis
Using EvaluatePharma data, Vantage has described how big pharma R&D spending has shifted, showed how internally discovered novel medicines account for a growing…
If you want blockbuster sales, buy them in
An analysis of recent US drug sales confirms the growing role of licensing and acquisitions, though the biggest sellers conceal some interesting nuance.
A Nasdaq float is scrapped, but for Poseida that’s great news
The CAR-T company cancels its Nasdaq IPO after securing more in a Novartis-led private financing.
Swiss big pharmas top the research spending tables
Over the past decade Roche and Novartis consistently spent more on R&D than other big pharma groups, while Abbvie and Astrazeneca have added to their budgets.
Big-bucks first quarter masks drop in deal volume
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $74bn bid for Celgene led to a huge quarter, but a drop in the deal count could give pause to those hoping for a bumper year.
Sillajen and Transgene bid to revive the oncolytic virus craze
The industry’s most advanced oncolytic virus project, Pexa-Vec, faces a make-or-break pivotal study readout.
AACR 2019 – Foundation Medicine sets the scene for liquid biopsy approval
A study of a liquid biopsy and another looking at tumour mutational burden testing give early indications of Foundation’s approval strategy.
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