This week's sponsor is Precision Oncology. | | Optimize registration success: what you need to know. Novel drug applications with biomarkers achieve 25.9% greater probability of approval than applications without. Learn the biomarker difference and 5 other key strategies. Get the free Oncology Brief | Top Stories Thursday, November 10, 2016 Alongside its Q3 results today AstraZeneca announced that it was dropping plans to gain an early regulatory review for its checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab in head and neck cancers. Thursday, November 10, 2016 The FDA has removed the partial clinical hold it placed on an Adaptimmune trial in August. The move clears Adaptimmune to start enrolling patients with myxoid round cell liposarcoma in a trial of its GlaxoSmithKline-partnered NY‑ESO T-cell therapy. Thursday, November 10, 2016 Two months ago Novavax announced that its Phase III RSV F vaccine flopped fantastically, and now, with a sense of inevitability, it has announced a “corporate restructure.” Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Evotec and the University of Oxford have teamed up to bridge the gap between academic research and industry. The initiative will offer funding and access to Evotec’s drug discovery platform to projects that are an experiment or two away from being ready to be spun out into biotech startups or outlicensed. Wednesday, November 9, 2016 IBM Watson is kicking off another oncology partnership, this time with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. The $50 million tie-up will have the pair examining genome data from 10,000 drug-resistant tumors and cell line studies, with the goal of understanding the drivers behind cancer drug resistance and developing new treatments. Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Induced pluripotent stem cell specialist Axiogenesis AG has partnered with ion channel CRO Metrion Biosciences to develop human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and neurons for drug discovery applications. Thursday, November 10, 2016 AstraZeneca’s top line got hit hard in Q3, and much of the pain came from plummeting Crestor sales. But the British drugmaker had underperformance in a couple key therapy areas to blame, too. This week's sponsor is Catalent. | | eBook | Healthy Aging: Improved Dose Forms for Aging Population As healthy aging becomes a bigger concern in the U.S., manufacturing companies are finding a new opportunities to serve this audience as they turn increasingly to OTC treatments. Download this eBook to learn how a successful partnership between OTC brands and manufacturing companies can improve health outcomes for the growing population of empowered seniors. | | Merrimack is, according to sources speaking to Reuters, on the brink of selling off some of its assets, or signing a licensing deal. Story Micro cap Anthera has seen its experimental lupus med blisibimod narrowly fail a late-stage study after not hitting its primary endpoint, prompting its shares to fall 20% premarket. Release Amgen has signed a collab deal with Janssen that will see the pair co-fund tests using Kyprolis and Darzalex in patients with multiple myeloma. Statement | |
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