Reata looks to outsmart Abbvie again
Fresh from buying omaveloxolone and bardoxolone rights back from Abbvie, Reata sees the first part of the puzzle fall into place.
As the heat rises, Clovis turns to radionuclides
The beleaguered drug maker has licensed a preclinical FAP-directed radiopharmaceutical, a target that has made little progress.
Bristol joins the pharma buyers club
An analysis of EvaluatePharma data shows that, in a Bristol-Myers Squelgene world, all big pharmas are increasing their reliance on external projects.
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.
Novartis cast-off gives Pharming a gap-filler
Pharming picks up Novartis’s late-stage PI3K inhibitor and plans to launch it for an ultra-rare disease. How will the competition respond?
A recap on the past few months of data digging and analysis
Using EvaluatePharma data Vantage explored investment trends in biopharma and medtech, sales per employee at big drug makers, and the declining number of late-stage…
Another immuno-oncology mechanism threatens to disappoint
As J&J tears up a licensing deal with Alligator, CD40 agonism might join the likes of Ox40 and IDO as an immuno-oncology approach that has failed to deliver.
Squelgene does a lopsided swap with Jounce
Celgene opts out of Jounce’s Icos agonist ahead of its merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Gilead-Galapagos deal rescues a slow licensing year
Up-front fees paid out by biopharma companies to seal licensing deals noticeably dipped in the second quarter of the year – then Gilead and Galapagos came along.
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