Award swells to $1.2B, plus royalties, in Kite CAR T suit Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE:BMY) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will receive at least $1.2 billion from Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) after a...

Sue Desmond-Hellmann is stepping down after five years as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Before joining the foundation, she spent 14 years at Genentech Inc., where she helped develop cancer drugs Herceptin...

In a reversal from 1Q19, biotech stocks across all market cap tiers fell in the second quarter, leading to a total loss of $22.3 billion. However, the year-to-date change in market cap remains well in...

It is clear that Europe has hotspots of innovation that are discovering and developing the next wave of new therapeutic modalities. Nearly every category of new modality has a European champion, with clusters forming around...

Biogen’s fall in the wake of its decision to discontinue late-stage trials of Alzheimer’s therapy aducanumab is yet another reminder that large caps are in dire need of new pipeline products, and could serve as...

Circassia said FDA approved Duaklir Pressair aclidinium bromide/formoterol fumarate to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The agency also accepted for review an sNDA for Tudorza Pressair aclidinium bromide to include on its label clinical data...

Biogen and Eisai said aducanumab is unlikely to meet the primary endpoints of two Phase III trials to treat early Alzheimer's disease, joining a long list of failed mAbs against β amyloid and putting more...

Products on shutdown standby On Jan. 14, FDA said it has reserves to continue drug reviews for five more weeks if the government shutdown continues. There are at least six PDUFA dates for new products...

INDICATION: Breast cancer Mouse studies suggest a vaccine based on a tetanus toxoid-MUC1 conjugate could help treat MUC1-expressing breast cancer. The conjugate consists of a 22-mer human MUC1 peptide conjugated to tetanus toxoid carrier protein,...

TECHNOLOGY: Cellular assays; tissue markers A tissue-based gene signature for quantifying immune cells could help identify populations of immune cell types as diagnostic or prognostic markers of disease. Identification of the signature, dubbed ImSig, involved...