Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week
July 31, 2020Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing COVID-19, Roche, UK government, Vaccine, lilly, pharma, top 10
Another week dominated by COVID-19. Among our most popular stories this week, Celltrion’s infliximab biosimilar Remsima has scored approval for …
Japan reserves 120m doses of BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine
July 31, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications BioNTech, COVID-19, Japan, Vaccine, pharma
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has sealed a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech to secure 120 million …
FDA expands Stelara indication to cover paediatric plaque psoriasis
July 31, 2020Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Janssen, Stelara, pharma, plaque psoriasis
Janssen’s IL-12 and IL-23 inhibitor Stelara (ustekinumab) has had its approved indications expanded by the FDA to include the treatment …
Bavencio+Inylta combo approved or Cancer Drugs Fund in advanced renal cell carcinoma
July 31, 2020Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Merck, NICE, Pfizer, pharma
NICE has revealed that a combination of Merck KGaA’s Bavencio (avelumab) and Pfizer’s Inlyta (axitinib) will be made available as …
Lilly and Boehringer’s Jardiance reduces hospitalisation and CV death risk from heart failure at Phase 3
July 30, 2020Research and Development Boehringer, Eli Lilly, jardiance, pharma
Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly have announced strong Phase 3 news on their sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor Jardiance (empagliflozin) in …
Sanofi’s nirsevimab nails study goals for prevention of respiratory syncytial virus in infants
July 30, 2020Research and Development Sanofi, nirsevimab, pharma
Sanofi’s nirsevimab met its goals in a Phase 2b study, the company has revealed, investigating its efficacy in the prevention …
UCB syncs up with Roche and Genentech in Alzheimer’s drug deal worth a potential $2bn+
July 30, 2020Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Genentech, Roche, UCB, partnership
UCB Pharma is set to partner up with Roche and Genentech in a development and commercialisation deal focused on its …
BioNTech’s melanoma vaccine shows promise in early interim analysis
July 30, 2020Research and Development BioNTech, Cancer, pharma
While the company has more recently drawn headlines for its COVID-19 efforts, BioNTech has unveiled promising interim Phase 1 data …
NICE shoots down Kyowa Kirin’s Poteligeo for NHS treatment of mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome
July 30, 2020Sales and Marketing Kyowa Kirin, NICE, pharma
NICE has issued draft guidance that has shot down Kyowa Kirin’s therapy Poteligeo (mogamulizumab) for use on the NHS in …
Takeda poised to cut sales jobs in Japan as restructuring continues
July 29, 2020Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Japan, Takeda, job cuts
Japan’s biggest drug firm Takeda is said to be mulling plans to cut back its sales operations with a new …
Pharmafile.com’s weekly COVID-19 news round-up
July 29, 2020Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing COVID-19, coronavirus, pharma
The once-touted COVID cure hydroxychloroquine continues its downward spiral of credibility as new data is published on its lack of …
Novartis’ Piqray combo becomes first Europe-approved therapy for PIK3CA-mutated advanced breast cancer
July 29, 2020Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Europe, Novartis, Piqray, breast cancer, pharma
The European Commission (EC) has awarded its approval for Novartis’ Piqray (alpelisib) to be made available in combination with fulvestrant …
UK Government secures 60 million doses of Sanofi and GSK’s COVID-19 vaccine
July 29, 2020Research and Development, Sales and Marketing COVID-19, GSK, Sanofi, UK government, pharma
The UK Government has sealed another deal to procure an effective COVID-19 vaccine for its citizens, partnering up with Sanofi …
Roche’s Actemra fails to improve clinical status in COVID-19-associated pneumonia
July 29, 2020Research and Development Actemra, COVID-19, Roche, pharma
Roche has announced the disappointing news that its therapy Actemra/RoActemra (tocilizumab) failed to improve clinical status to a statistically significant …
Eli Lilly teams up with Chi-Med for Chinese sales of Elunate capsules
July 28, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Chi-Med, China, Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly Shanghai, an affiliate of the wider company, has enlisted the help of biopharma firm Hutchinson China MediTech, or …
Yale-backed study to test efficacy of AI-selected therapy in COVID-19
July 28, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development AI, COVID-19, clinical trial, pharma
Biopharma firm AI Therapeutics is partnering with Yale School of Medicine to launch a new clinical trial to identify the efficacy …
Farxiga smashes all goals in Phase 3 chronic kidney disease trial, says AstraZeneca
July 28, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development AstraZeneca, farxiga
AstraZeneca has teased new data from a Phase 3 study of its sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor Farxiga (dapagliflozin) in the …
Kyowa Kirin’s Crysvita secures CHMP support in rare X-linked hypophosphataemia
July 28, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing CHMP, EMA
The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given its backing to Kyowa Kirin’s …
Celltrion’s infliximab biosimilar Remsima secures European approval in five indications
July 27, 2020Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing celltrion, infliximab, pharma, remsima
The subcutaneous (SC) formulation of Remsima, Celltrion’s biosimilar version of infliximab, has secured approval from the European Commission covering five …
AstraZeneca partners with Daichii Sankyo in potential $6bn cancer drug deal
July 27, 2020Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, partnership, pharma
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo have joined forces to drive the development and commercialisation of the latter’s DS-1062, a trophoblast cell-surface …
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