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Opdivos EU Colorectal Cancer is a Setback but More Than Offset By Potential Gains

By Ian Schofield 29 Nov 2022

Bristol-Myers Squibb has withdrawn its EU application to extend Opdivo’s use to metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), following a similar move for liver cancer last year. But the mCRC withdrawal is likely to have limited commercial impact and the company is more interested in pursuing the product’s use in combination treatment for this indication.

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Pfizer Lays Out Multi-Phase COVID-19 Vaccine Commercial Strategy

By Jessica Merrill 14 Nov 2022

The pandemic phase will last through late 2021/early 2022, becoming a more seasonal opportunity for several years after, Pfizer management predicted during the company's second quarter call.

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Sanofi's €10bn Dupixent Plan: 'We're Going To Put The JAKs Properly In Their Place'

By Jessica Merrill 14 Nov 2022

Sanofi's new CEO has ambitious forecasts for Dupixent in atopic dermatitis, asthma and other indications. The French pharma outlined how it plans to reach that goal despite new competition vying to get in.

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Progress Being Made With Cell And Gene Therapy Market Access, But Challenges Remain

By Mandy Jackson 14 Nov 2022

Drug developers and payers are coming together long before product approvals to work out payment options for high-cost, high-impact cell and gene therapies, but challenges like portability of commercially insured patients and Medicaid best price requirements remain.

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AstraZeneca Plans $630m Korea Investment Amid Favorable Policies

By Jung Won Shin 25 Oct 2022

AstraZeneca plans hefty investment in South Korea’s biomedical sector over next few years, in a signal of multinationals' improved sentiment over the government’s recently announced plans to nurture the bio-health industry as a major growth engine.

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Scrip Asks...What Does 2020 Hold For Biopharma? Part 1: Therapeutic Advances

By Eleanor Malone 20 Oct 2022

Advances in multiple scientific areas will mature into novel therapeutics, often tailored for the individual patient and increasingly curative, making biopharma an exciting place to be in 2020.

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Coronavirus Update: Korea Approval For Nuvaxovid, Japan Filing For Paxlovid

By Scrip Team 18 Jan 2022

More progress for vaccines and oral antivirals in Asia as South Korea issues an approval for Novavax's vaccine, Pfizer files for Japanese approval of Paxlovid, and SK bio progresses late-stage trials of its recombinant vaccine.

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Deal Watch: How Did J.P. Morgan Deal-Making Compare To Prior Years?

By Joseph Haas 17 Jan 2022

Licensing deals and partnerships carried the day during another hectic J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Pfizer racked up its third deal of the week in a cancer collaboration with Dren Bio.

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Quick Listen: Scrip's Five Must-Know Things

By Ian Haydock 17 Jan 2022

In this week's podcast edition of Five Must-Know Things: easy alliances rather than big deals the focus at JP Morgan; multiple company roundups from JPM; and Lilly braces for impact of US CMS decision on Aduhelm.

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A Deep Dive Into The Game-Changing Drugs For Skin Diseases

By Scrip Team 17 Jan 2022

Scrip's Kevin Grogan joins Datamonitor's Pamela Spicer and Davinderpreet Mangat to discuss the skin disease landscape and whether atopic dermatitis is now where psoriasis was a decade ago as another wave of innovative products start to reach the market.

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Gilead Aims For Oncology To Provide One-Third Of Revenues By 2030

By Alaric DeArment 10 Jan 2022

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At the J.P. Morgan meeting, the company said its business development priorities have not changed, but it plans to prioritize licensing and small acquisitions rather than big ticket deals in 2022.

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Quick Listen: Scrip's Five Must-Know Things

By Ian Haydock 10 Jan 2022

In this week's podcast edition of Five Must-Know Things: new mRNA vaccine deal for Pfizer and BioNTech; court ruling helps Novartis’s Gilenya; first cut-price generic Paxlovid launched; breaking down BridgeBio’s Phase III failure; and a look at gene editing companies to watch at JP Morgan.

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BioNTech Deal Shows Pfizer Is Reinvesting COVID-19 Windfall In mRNA

By Alaric DeArment 05 Jan 2022

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The companies’ third vaccine-development deal shows how COVID cash has also led mRNA-focused companies to beef up their organic pipelines amid talk of a merger wave.

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Five (Non-COVID) Clinical Trial Misses Of 2021

By Alex Shimmings 04 Jan 2022

The coronavirus pandemic may have dominated the news in 2021, but industry’s more bread and butter R&D activities continued. Here, Scrip takes a look at five of the more notable clinical trial misses of the year that got readers clicking.

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MIG Capital: BioNTech Has Transformed Global View Of German Biotech 'But We Don’t Walk On Water’

By Andrew McConaghie 23 Dec 2021

MIG Capital’s Matthias Kromayer looks back at the huge success of its long-term backing of BioNTech and discusses the group’s next big life sciences investments, but warns that realism and hard work are needed to achieve another breakthrough.