Featured Story | By Nick Paul Taylor Bayer has struck a deal to acquire Asklepios BioPharmaceutical for $2 billion upfront. The deal, which features an additional $2 billion in milestones, will give Bayer control of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy platform and a pipeline led by clinical-phase treatments for Parkinson’s, Pompe disease and congestive heart failure. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Mirati Therapeutics’ KRAS drug MRTX849 has triggered responses in 45% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. The result, which beats the 35% reported by KRAS rival Amgen, sets Mirati up to file for FDA approval of the drug in the second half of next year. read more By Amirah Al Idrus It’s been a minute, but AstraZeneca has gotten the FDA’s all-clear to restart the U.S. study of its COVID-19 vaccine. The British pharma slammed the brakes on the program in early September when a patient in the U.K. developed an inflammatory side effect. The pause came just one week after the 30,000-patient U.S. trial kicked off. read more By Amirah Al Idrus On the heels of a $278 million IPO, Forma Therapeutics is inching toward its first FDA filing. Its lead asset, an IDH1 inhibitor, cleared cancer in one-third of patients with acute myeloid leukemia that had returned despite undergoing treatment or who did not respond to treatment in the first place. read more By Arlene Weintraub KSQ Therapeutics is developing a first-in-class drug that inhibits USP1, an enzyme that promotes the survival of cancer cells by facilitating DNA repair. In mouse models of breast and ovarian cancers, combining the drug with Merck and AstraZeneca's PARP inhibitor Lynparza was more effective than either drug on its own, KSQ reported. read more By Ben Adams Celltrion has nabbed a speedy preapproval for its quick pandemic virus test as it forecasts high demand. read more By Eric Sagonowsky For the pharma world, the pandemic has been a crisis with a purpose. Scientists, regulators, biotech companies and drugmakers large and small have taken center stage as they hunt for drugs, vaccines, diagnostic tests and other aids in halting the pandemic. 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