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As talks continue on the EU pharmaceutical legislative reform proposals, drug firms may have to wait some time before they find out what the future periods of regulatory data protection and orphan market exclusivity will be.
Despite the importance of developing and commercializing new products to fuel pharma revenue growth, it is estimated that approximately up to 50% of drug launches fail to meet financial expectations. We explore how to maximize product success in pharma's value era.
While Japanese firms still dominate the money spinners in Asia, companies from China and, lesser so, India are starting to stand out from the crowd.
During Q3, biopharma merger and acquisition deal value reached $11.7bn and drew in $33.1bn in potential deal value from alliances. Device company M&A values reached $8.2bn, while in vitro diagnostics and research tools players’ M&A activity totaled $86.3m.
A wealth of new therapies are set to successfully graduate from the pipeline in 2025. Within this cohort are a mixture of therapeutic areas, drug classes, first-time approvals, label expansions, and treatments that will meaningfully change how diseases are treated.
The five-year roadmap aims to expand support for AI research and development in essential health care and new drug development, as well as advance medical data usage systems and enable its safe use.
Since taking on the CEO role at Theratechnologies in 2020, Paul Lévesque has made it his priority to beef up the company’s commercial portfolio and look for partnerships on potentially high-value programs. Now, the Canadian biotech is turning a profit for the first time in many years.
While big pharma has significantly higher R&D and acquisition expenditures, certain biotechs have outperformed in terms of ROI and have substantial potential for future growth with their strong pipeline assets.
In the latest episode of the In Vivo podcast, Russ Lebovitz, the co-founder and scientist behind San Diego's Amprion Diagnostics, discusses the role alpha-synuclein misfolding plays in neurodegenerative diseases and how early alpha-synuclein testing could mitigate the impacts of conditions ranging from Parkinson's disease to Lewy body dementia.
Exosome-based treatments hold promise, but their reality has not yet materialized in the form of compelling clinical data. Belgian biotech Exo Biologics’ CEO Hugues Wallemacq believes his company can help move the field forward, both through its own clinical programs and by offering high-quality exosomes to others in the field.
Christopher Anzalone is spearheading Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' transformation from a development-focused to a commercial-stage biotech. The CEO touts an “almost plug and play” platform, a derisked development strategy and a busy pipeline with vast potential.
Profit warnings from CDMOs ring a warning bell that pharma is cutting its early research spend. What impact will spending controls and the tsunami of AI have on the pharmaceutical industry's R&D investments?
Datamonitor Healthcare analysts and podcast co-hosts Flora Mackay and Emma Wille discuss the complicated development of therapeutic psychedelics. They dwell on FDA involvement and advisory committees, alongside adverse event reporting and ethical concerns.
An interactive look at pharma, medtech and diagnostics deals made during August 2024. Data courtesy of Biomedtracker.
After years of heavy price and cost pressures that have taken a toll on firms operating in the US generics market, more recent quarters appear to have reflected a calmer and more predictable landscape.
Six $1bn+ alliances were penned in August. In the top alliance by deal value, ImmuneOnco Biopharmaceuticals licensed Instil Bio global rights (excluding China, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong) to develop and commercialize its PD-L1xVEGF bispecific antibody IMM2510 and the next-generation anti-CTLA-4 antibody IMM27M. The deal could be worth over $2bn. The candidates have potential in treating advanced solid tumors.
After 10 years of promised investment following its Nobel Prize for iPS cell research, Japan is cautiously narrowing regulations around the conditional approval of cell therapies and cutting some reimbursement prices. Commercial success remains mixed and some products have been withdrawn from the market.
The second instalment of In Vivo’s three-part series delves into the therapeutic categories that will propel forecast pharmaceutical sales growth for 2025, focusing on blood malignancies, skin conditions and generalized cardiovascular disease.
The latest figures on uptake of rivals to AbbVie's Humira in the US show adalimumab biosimilars beginning to capture significant market share from the originator after an initially slow start in 2023.
Without a mega-merger like 2023’s Pfizer/Seagan takeout, M&A deals grew smaller during the first half of 2024, while volume rose. In alliance deals, H1 2024 activity somewhat mirrored activity from H1 2023.