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2020’s M&A activity hasn’t quite reached the heights of last year’s, where two pharma mega-mergers – BMS’ buyout of Celegne and AbbVie’s acquisition of Allergan – accounted for almost 40% of total M&A deal values. Here we take a look at the biggest mergers and acquisitions of 2020 and what they might mean for the companies involved.
Y-mAbs Therapeutics has claimed its first product approval, getting a green light from the FDA for Danyelza for the rare cancer neuroblastoma. It’s very exciting to see this treatment go from being an experimental therapy used at my daughter’s bedside to now being FDA approved,” said Gad, who is chairman and president of Y-mAbs. “I
FDA advisors will scrutinise three cancer immunotherapies granted conditional approvals at a three-day meeting this week, to see if they should stay on the market. . Briefing documents published by the FDA ahead of the meeting suggest that discussion will focus on ongoing trials that may serve as alternative confirmatory studies.
Gilead’s $21 billion purchase of Immunomedics and its potential blockbuster Trodelvy continues to pay off, as the drug has now been approved by the FDA for triple-negative breast cancer. . months in patients treated with chemotherapy. months in patients treated with chemotherapy. billion in early 2020. .
But the FDA requires survival data for a full approval, and this is what Immunomedics announced at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). months in patients treated with chemotherapy. in the chemotherapy arm. months, compared with 6.7 in the Trodelvy arm, compared with 5.4%
A prescription digital therapeutic (DTx) for leukaemia patients developed by Blue Note Therapeutics has been awarded breakthrough device status by the FDA. Last year, Biofourmis said its heart failure tool BiovitalsHF was the first DTx to be awarded breakthrough status by the FDA.
billion takeover of Agios Pharma’s oncology business after getting a key FDA approval for Tibsovo, the main asset in the deal. It can be used in in adults 75 years or older, or who have comorbidities that preclude use of intensive induction chemotherapy. Servier is on course to get a return on its $1.8
Johnson & Johnson’s Darzalex Faspro has become the first product approved by the FDA to treat light chain (AL) amyloidosis, a rare and often fatal blood cell disorder. Until now people with AL amyloidosis have had to rely on chemotherapy, with its accompanying side effects, and other drugs to tackle organ failure once damage gets severe.
The FDA has dropped a bomb on Eli Lilly’s marketing application for cancer immunotherapy sintilimab ahead of an advisory committee meeting due to take place on Thursday. ” While ODAC could still decide to back the drug at the meeting, the FDA isn’t beholden to follow its experts’ advice.
Bristol-Myer Squibb has only just won FDA approval for its CAR-T Breyanzi in large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL), but is already eyeing an expansion into earlier-line therapy that could overtake rival therapies from Novartis and Gilead Sciences. The post BMS will file for earlier-line use of Breyanzi in lymphoma after trial win appeared first on.
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AZ and Merck’s drug was also approved as a second-line therapy after Xtandi or Pfizer’s Zytiga (abiraterone) for mCRPC in 2020, but only as a monotherapy in patients with tumours that express homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene mutation – including BRCA1/2 and ATM).
The European Commission has cleared Bavencio (avelumab) for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) – the most common form of bladder cancer – in cases where cancer hasn’t progressed after platinum-containing chemotherapy. The green light in Europe comes six months after the FDA backed the same use for the drug in the US.
While the French MaaT Pharma has submitted further information to the FDA, its trial remains on hold. In November 2022, Ferring Pharmaceuticals’s Rebyota became the first FDA-approved microbiome-based therapeutic to treat recurrent CDI. But the approval came through after an FDA Advisory Committee meeting. with placebo.
Amivantamab was the first bispecific monoclonal antibody (BsMAb) approved in the EU to treat advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations post chemotherapy. They are not US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for these patients due to the lack of benefit. 2020; 19(10): 2044–56. Personalized medicine at FDA.
9,273,135 and 9,320,811, which cover the use of a CTLA4 inhibitor in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor and chemotherapy drug gemcitabine, respectively. Growth for the drug has picked up in the last couple of years, including approval in 2020 as a low-dose add-on to Opdivo in various liver and lung cancer settings. 1:23-cv-00079).
The European approval of Doptelet as a second-line treatment for ITP after therapies such as corticosteroids and immunoglobulin drugs comes after a green light by the FDA in July 2019. According to some analysts it could catapult sales to several hundred million dollars a year, perhaps even broaching the $1 billion threshold.
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Data from the study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 2020, and won tepotinib a breakthrough designation from the FDA. The MHRA said that the standard treatment of non-small cell lung cancer is chemotherapy or immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors if there is no targeted therapy available.
China’s Simcere Pharmaceutical has been granted approval in its home market for Cosela, a drug designed to limit the side effects of cancer chemotherapy, partnered with US biotech G1 Therapeutics. Simcere said that the number of new cancer patients requiring chemotherapy in China is expected to reach 4.2
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Prescription digital therapeutics (DTx) company Blue Note is starting a large-scale, decentralised trial of two cancer therapies that it hopes will lead to regulatory approval from the FDA. The study will examine the effects of using two DTx products targeting mental and physical health, as an add-on to standard cancer care.
As a result, when the patient’s lymphoma relapses after treatment with chemotherapy, BV and CPIs, there are no effective treatment alternatives for these patients. We received encouraging feedback from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the trial design and potential for accelerated approval.
Incyte has filed its PD-1 inhibitor retifanlimab with the FDA, seeking approval to treat a form of anal cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) and HIV infections. It may get the nod before GlaxoSmithKline’s dostarlimab , also under review at the FDA for endometrial cancer.
This was followed by a further deal for the global development and commercialisation of another ADC, datopotamab deruxtecan (DS-1062) in 2020, with a deal value of up to $6bn. months compared with patients treated with standard-of-care chemotherapy. overall response rate (ORR), with a median duration of response (DOR) of 8.7
billion in milestone payments to POINT if the two radiotherapeutics get FDA approval and meet commercial objectives, plus royalties on net sales. It is paying $250 million for global rights, with another $250 million forthcoming on FDA approval, plus $1.3 Lantheus is promising up to $1.8 billion in milestone payments.
The result is good news for Pfizer, which has exclusive marketing rights to the drug in mainland China under an agreement signed in 2020. Suzhou-based CStone Pharmaceuticals’ checkpoint inhibitor sugemalimab has proved effective in a trial as a first-line therapy for oesophageal cancer, setting up a regulatory filing in China.
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According to a 2020 study, there seems to be a connection between hemorrhoids and Hashimoto’s. [23] Plecanatide : This is one of the newest medications for IBS-C that has been approved by the FDA. Published 2020 Oct 8. 23] In this study, patients with hemorrhoids were deemed to be at an increased risk of Hashimoto’s.
A small study in 2020 compared the use of hemp CBD, cannabis CBD containing THC, or a placebo in patients with fibromyalgia. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug to treat seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome. They are prescribed to increase appetite in patients receiving chemotherapy.
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2020 also saw some of the first “tumour agnostic” cancer drugs get to market, with Bayer’s Vitravki (larotrectinib) getting funding in the UK for tumours with confirmed neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase (NTRK) gene fusions.”. months in patients treated with chemotherapy. billion on buying the US biotech VelosBio in November.
Mexican Governor: Cancer Children Given Water Instead of Chemotherapy.” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 68 (2020): 4069-82. SPuMoNI is particularly timely because blockchain has been proposed to become “a new digital service infrastructure” for Europe. link] 6 BBC News. Published 19 January 2017. link] 7 He, J., Cai, and X.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pushed quizartinib’s Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date in newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for the review of updates of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) included in the application. AML makes up 23.1% of total leukaemia cases globally.
billion USD will be spent in cancer care worldwide this year (2020), compared to 13.8 In England for instance, the introduction of a biosimilar to prevent neutropenia in patients undergoing chemotherapy, resulted in a number of Strategic Health Authorities reassessing their guidance relating to this medicine. Published on 24 June 2020.
Amgen has filed its groundbreaking KRAS inhibiting drug sotorasib with the FDA for a group of lung cancer patients with an aggressive form of the disease. The FDA is reviewing sotorasib under its Real-Time Oncology Review (RTOR) programme and could be the first to be approved in this indication, which covers around 13% of NSCLC patients.
Of note, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ANSM (French regulatory authorities) have established themselves as early leaders to develop guidelines. Since these fresh FDA approvals for microbiome-based therapies, regulatory pathways are becoming clearer and opening new perspectives for companies.
Despite advances with targeted and immuno-oncology therapies, chemotherapies remain a cornerstone of cancer treatment for many tumour types – a reflection of their significant anti?tumour While highly effective, taxanes also exhibit several of the typical limitations associated with systemic chemotherapies. tumour effects.
The FDA is already reviewing a marketing application based on the data, with a verdict due in February. Pfizer’s drug failed a trial in this setting in 2020, while Novartis is testing Kisqali in the ongoing NATALEE trial. The post SABCS: Pharmas show their working in HR+/HER2- breast cancer appeared first on.
The FDA has started a priority review of Regeneron and Sanofi’s checkpoint inhibitor Libtayo in first-line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on data they hope will carve out a niche for the drug in a highly-contested market. Regeneron reported sales of the drug were around $155 million in the first half of 2020.
Earlier results reported at the ASCO congress in 2020 showed that the combination had an ORR of 31% after an average of 11 months’ follow-up, so the new data points to a durable response that may be deepening over time. The combination earned a breakthrough designation from the FDA earlier this year.
In June, Clovis suffered another blow when it withdrew Rubraca’s mCRPC approval, after a post-marketing trial showed a higher death rate with the drug compared to chemotherapy when used as a third- or later-line treatment for the cancer.
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