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News and Trends 28 Jun 2022

Biogen, citing insurance challenges, shutters one of its Aduhelm studies

A company says it was forced to end an observational trial of Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, after a ruling by US federal insurance program, Medicare. Biogen said a recent coverage decision by Medicare has forced it to abandon the trial of the drug after enrolling just 29 participants. The company said it made the decision to […]

June 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 23 Jun 2022

Osivax gets €10M influenza vaccine grant

A grant of €10 million ($10.5 million) has been secured by pharmaceutical company Osivax to support a vaccine against influenza. The biopharma company develops vaccines to provide broad-spectrum protection against highly mutating infectious viruses and diseases. It announced today (June 23) that it has secured the funds from Bpifrance to support the further clinical development […]

June 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 20 May 2022

Zealand Pharma’s drug for rare metabolic disease smashes phase III

After a year of slumping stock prices, Zealand Pharma is striking back, as its peptide drug improved blood sugar control in infants with the rare disease congenital hyperinsulinemia in a phase III trial. In late 2020, the Danish firm Zealand Pharma A/S hit a big obstacle when its peptide drug dasiglucagon failed to treat the […]

May 20, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 8 Feb 2022

Reforms of EU Clinical Trial Regulations Bring Cautious Optimism

The EU’s clinical trial regulations received a major overhaul at the end of January 2022 to make trials easier to run across EU member states. It may bring some short-term chaos, industry insiders say, but down the road it is likely to pay off. At the start of February, the EU’s new Clinical Trials Regulation […]

February 8, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

Opinion 10 Nov 2021

Automation Can Solve Diversity Issues in Clinical Trial Recruitment

How can we make clinical trial recruitment more reflective of the real world? Technology is coming to the rescue. The quest for diversity in clinical trials goes to the heart of patient care. Why are some demographic groups over-represented in studies when others are more difficult to recruit? Studies that fail to reflect patient demographics […]

November 10, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 26 Oct 2021

Valneva’s Inactivated Covid-19 Vaccine Aces Phase III Trial

Last week, the French vaccine maker Valneva announced promising phase III trial results of its inactivated Covid-19 vaccine: a well-established technology that could confer broader immunity to the virus than shots currently on the market. Valneva’s vaccine candidate consists of a killed or ‘inactivated’ version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19. The vaccine was […]

October 26, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

News and Trends 8 Sep 2021

As J&J Vaccine Fails Phase II, the Quest for an HIV Vaccine Continues

Johnson & Johnson became the latest company to have a failed vaccine trial against HIV last week. While it was a great disappointment to many, efforts continue in this space, helped by recent Covid-19 vaccine advances. HIV has been around for decades. While antiretroviral treatments have improved enormously, turning what was once a death sentence […]

September 8, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 2 Sep 2021

AC Immune’s Mixed Phase II Results Buoy Alzheimer’s Research

An Alzheimer’s disease drug developed by AC Immune and Genentech has drawn conflicting phase II results this week, raising tentative hopes for the field of treatments targeting the protein tau. For decades, the major culprit responsible for Alzheimer’s disease was suggested to be the buildup of a protein called amyloid-beta in the brain. Blocking this […]

September 2, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 29 Apr 2021

BMS’s Cancer Trial Showcases Potential for Checkpoint Inhibitors

Bristol Myers Squibb’s recent phase III success provided the first late-stage confirmation for a novel immune checkpoint target in nearly a decade. This could herald the next generation of checkpoint inhibitors against cancer. Last month, the antibody drug relatlimab, developed by Bristol Myers Squibb, increased the progression-free survival of melanoma patients in phase III. These […]

April 29, 2021 - 5 minutesmins - By Mark Zipkin

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News and Trends 27 Apr 2021

EMA Approvals for Multiple Sclerosis Highlight Treatment Shortfalls

While the EU saw rapid-fire approvals in the multiple sclerosis space last month, the innovations centered mostly on improving existing approaches. Which areas of multiple sclerosis treatment need more options? At the end of March, the EMA made key decisions on three treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic neurodegenerative disease affecting 2.5 million people […]

April 27, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Why Biotechs Should Invest in Good Outsourcing Management of CROs

The relationship between biotechs and their CRO partners has been long in the making. These days, a collaboration with CROs is seen as a standard in the drug development industry. However, the management of drug development partners and providers can be highly challenging for biotechs. This is where outsourcing expertise can make the difference between […]

June 8, 2020 - 8 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Expert Advice 12 Mar 2020

Five Challenges For Life Science Marketers in 2020

Developing a new drug has an estimated cost of €583M to €2.4B. Much of this spending goes towards companies, such as vendors, CROs, and CDMOs, who generate value by commercializing and industrializing innovations to improve the ways researchers study organisms and viruses in the early stages of drug development. For those of us in sales […]

March 12, 2020 - 14 minutesmins - By Mark Livingstone

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Biogen, citing insurance challenges, shutters one of its Aduhelm studies

Osivax gets €10M influenza vaccine grant

Zealand Pharma’s drug for rare metabolic disease smashes phase III

Reforms of EU Clinical Trial Regulations Bring Cautious Optimism

Automation Can Solve Diversity Issues in Clinical Trial Recruitment

Valneva’s Inactivated Covid-19 Vaccine Aces Phase III Trial

As J&J Vaccine Fails Phase II, the Quest for an HIV Vaccine Continues

AC Immune’s Mixed Phase II Results Buoy Alzheimer’s Research

BMS’s Cancer Trial Showcases Potential for Checkpoint Inhibitors

EMA Approvals for Multiple Sclerosis Highlight Treatment Shortfalls

Why Biotechs Should Invest in Good Outsourcing Management of CROs

Five Challenges For Life Science Marketers in 2020

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