Long term forecasts confirm Keytruda’s dominance
Keytruda sales could be more than double any other product in 2026, new estimates suggests, as Merck’s cancer drug surges into the record books.
Another blockbuster year looms for approvals
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s candidate and Fibrogen’s new anaemia pill top the list of the biggest commercial hopes that could reach the market in 2020.
Global Blood’s sickle cell approval is no guarantee of success
Rather than nipping at Adakveo’s heels, Global Blood Therapeutics’ newly approved sickle cell drug Oxbryta might end up floundering in the Novartis product’s wake.
EHA 2019 – Global Blood faces sickle cell questions
More data with voxelotor shouldn’t hurt the project’s bid for accelerated approval, but there are still doubts about its effect on a harder patient outcome.
Emmaus tries to move forwards by reversing
The company insists that its sickle cell disease therapy Endari still has a future, despite questionable efficacy and the approach of new treatments.
Splitting the difference on promising pipeline asset predictions
An analysis looking at forecast discrepancies for the top pipeline projects reveals vast differences of opinion about Vertex's cystic fibrosis triplet and Novo…
Upcoming events – Pfizer and Glycomimetics await sickle cell data and Biocryst tries again
Rivipansel needs to help sickle cell patients leave hospital sooner and BCX7353 faces established hereditary angioedema agents.
JP Morgan 2019 day two roundup – after the party a harsh reality
After Monday’s celebrations the sector gets down to discussing the difficult business of actually selling and making money from drugs.
Ash 2018 event analyzer – Losers edge out winners in year’s final major meeting
Autolus leads winners in spite of scepticism over its CAR-T, and gene therapies disappoint.
