Research & Evidence

Merck’s CMV Drug Lowers Reactivation by 88% After Cell Transplant

by Samantha McGrail

Merck recently announced that its cytomegalovirus (CMV) treatment, Prevymis (letermovir), lowered the odds of CMV reactivation by 88% 100 days after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation...

FDA Declines Eli Lilly’s Letter for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Drug

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued a complete response letter (CRL) for Eli Lilly and Company’s biologics license application (BLA) for its combination antibody therapy, sintilimab, to treat nonsquamous...

Pfizer’s Ulcerative Colitis Drug Helps Patients in Phase 3 Study

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently announced that its selective sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator to treat moderate to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) significantly improved the primary endpoint of...

Moderna Will Expand mRNA Vaccine Pipeline Through 2 New Programs

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna will expand its mRNA vaccine pipeline through two new development programs, including a combination respiratory vaccine candidate and a program against four endemic human coronaviruses...

Novavax Launches 2 Global Vaccine Programs As Educational Tools

by Samantha McGrail

Novavax recently launched its global, unbranded vaccine programs, 'We Do Vaccines' and 'Know Our Vax' as educational efforts to help protect people's health in the fight against the...

Civica to Manufacture Lower-Priced Insulin for Diabetes Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Civica recently announced plans to manufacture and distribute insulin to diabetes patients at significantly lower prices than insulins currently on the market.  Civica, CivicaScript, and the...

Pfizer Initiates Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently initiated a Phase 2/3 clinical trial to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of its COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid, in non-hospitalized, symptomatic pediatric...

FDA Rejects Gilead’s Drug Application for HIV-1 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued a complete response letter (CRL) to Gilead rejecting its New Drug Application (NDA) for HIV-1 treatment, lenacapavir. The agency cited Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC)...

UC Berkeley Loses CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent Appeal

by Samantha McGrail

The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTAB) recently ruled that CRISPR gene-editing technology belongs to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, according to multiple news sources. After an...

AstraZeneca, Alexion, Neurimmune to Develop Rare Disease Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca Rare Disease and Alexion group recently closed a global collaboration and license agreement with Neurimmune AG for the investigational human monoclonal antibody, NI006. NI006 is a...

FDA Accepts Bristol Myers’s BLA for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Drug

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted Bristol Myers Squibb’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for its non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug, Opdivo, plus chemotherapy. The agency based its...

Moderna Expands mRNA Vaccine Pipeline for HSV, VZV, Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently expanded its mRNA pipeline with three new development programs, including an HSV mRNA vaccine, a varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine, and a checkpoint cancer vaccine. First, Moderna...

Moderna, ROVI Expand Collaboration to Boost mRNA Vaccines

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna and ROVI recently entered into a long-term collaboration to increase capacities for the compounding, aseptic filling, inspection, and manufacturing of mRNA vaccines and medicines over the next...

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization For Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly and Company’s monoclonal antibody, bebtelovimab, which retains activity against the omicron variant. The agency authorized the...

AstraZeneca’s Chemotherapy Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced that its combination chemotherapy treatment improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) compared to standard-of-care for metastatic castration-resistant...

Merck KGaA to Assess Quris AI Platform for Clinical Prediction

by Samantha McGrail

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Quris recently signed an agreement to assess the Quris BioAI machine learning platform and compare it to traditional in vitro and in vivo approaches. The Quris...

Biogen, Xbrane Develop Preclinical Monoclonal Antibody, Biosimilar

by Samantha McGrail

Biogen and Xbrane Biopharma recently agreed to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a preclinical monoclonal antibody and proposed biosimilar, Xcimzane, referencing Cimzia.  Cimzia is a drug...

Samsung Biologics to Accelerate Growth in Biosimilar Research

by Samantha McGrail

Samsung Biologics will acquire Biogen’s stake in Samsung Bioepis for $2.3 billion to accelerate growth in biosimilars and novel therapeutic research and development. Under the terms of the...

Personalized Immunotherapy Could Treat Metastatic Breast Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Personalized immunotherapy from an individual’s tumor-fighting immune cells could potentially treat metastatic breast cancer, according to a study from the National Cancer Institute’s...

CVS Health, Medable Expand Clinical Trial Access, Engagement

by Samantha McGrail

CVS Health and Medable recently collaborated to expand clinical trial access and engagement for patients at select MinuteClinic locations. The collaboration will combine Medable’s software...