Astra could use a voucher to cement roxadustat’s head start
Spending $95m to speed up the anaemia project’s path to approval could be worth the investment for Astrazeneca.
A delicate balancing act for Immunogen
The group is desperately playing up mirvetuximab, but its future rests with a pair of earlier-stage projects.
AACR 2019 – Xospata meets the conditions of its US approval
Survival data confirm the value of Astellas’s FLT3-targeting approach in acute myelogenous leukaemia.
Immunogen fails to leap Forward
As doubts grow about targeting the folate receptor, Immunogen’s decision to press on with mirvetuximab soravtansine looks desperate.
Upcoming events – Jazz and Macrogenics look to phase III readouts
Jazz wants to expand its sleep portfolio, while Macrogenics hopes trial data will support its first new drug application.
Pharma news over the Christmas period
If the recent performance of biotech stocks prompted you to pull down the shutters until the New Year celebrations subsided here’s what you might have missed.
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.
Ash 2018 – Targeted AML trial expands its Beat
After years in the wilderness acute myeloid leukaemia is seeing a wave of activity, and there could be more targeted agents to come.
Ash 2018 – Immunogen makes its case for a Jazz gig
The first day of the haematology conference sees first-in-human data from two antibody-drug conjugates belonging to Immunogen, a company eager to draw a line under a…
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