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Dec 13, 2024

AbbVie buys Roche spinout Nimble Therapeutics for $200M


McKinsey agrees to $650M DOJ settlement over opioid consulting relationship with Purdue Pharma


Medtronic’s latest ingestible PillCam completes first patient GI procedure


Incyte scraps anemia program after drug fails to improve symptoms in rare blood cancer


After Moderna's pediatric RSV vaccine trial hold, expert panel says more testing is needed


Novo Nordisk’s chief scientific officer looks to the future of GLP-1s

 

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AbbVie buys Roche spinout Nimble Therapeutics for $200M

AbbVie is paying $200 million to snap up Nimble Therapeutics, a Roche spinout working to develop oral peptide treatments in the autoimmune space.
 

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McKinsey agrees to $650M DOJ settlement over opioid consulting relationship with Purdue Pharma

McKinsey will pay $650 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice, which was investigating the company’s efforts to help Purdue increase its opioid sales. In exchange, the DOJ will drop its charges.

Medtronic’s latest ingestible PillCam completes first patient GI procedure

The company received a new FDA clearance for the PillCam Genius SB this past May, though the technology has been in use since the early 2000s.

Incyte scraps anemia program after drug fails to improve symptoms in rare blood cancer

Incyte is dropping a program for patients with myelofibrosis-related anemia after its investigational small molecule failed to improve symptoms in a phase 1/2 trial.

After Moderna's pediatric RSV vaccine trial hold, expert panel says more testing is needed

An FDA advisory committee—examining the halt of a trial of two Moderna respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines because of severe lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs)—echoed frustration in knowledge gaps about the disease and said that more testing is needed.

Novo Nordisk’s chief scientific officer looks to the future of GLP-1s

This week on “The Top Line,” we hear from Novo Nordisk CSO Marcus Schindler about his role at the Danish pharma and what’s next for the GLP-1 drug class.

Editas lays off 65% of staff, including CMO, after fruitless search for reni-cel partner

Editas Medicine is laying off three-quarters of its workforce, including its chief medical officer, after the gene-editing biotech was unable to find a partner for its sickle cell disease medicine.

Avalere promotes Amar Urhekar, the architect of its new model, to CEO

Avalere Health has moved Amar Urhekar a rung up the corporate ladder, promoting the executive to CEO after a little more than one year as chief operating officer.

Gilead's Daniel O'Day relishes Dietmar Berger reunion as cancer specialist agrees to join from Sanofi

Gilead has raided Sanofi for its next chief medical officer, luring Dietmar Berger, M.D., Ph.D., away from the French drugmaker to replace Merdad Parsey, M.D., Ph.D. The appointment reunites Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day with a key member of the oncology team from his time at Roche.

EMA backs Merck’s Welireg, Bayer’s ATTR med and Gilead’s liver drug from $4.3B deal

In a flurry of decisions Friday, the European Medicines Agency’s human products committee recommended 17 new drugs for approval while letting Takeda withdraw from market an inflammatory bowel disease complication medication.

Regulatory tracker: FDA flags cases of 'serious liver injury' in patients being treated with Intercept's Ocaliva

In this tracker, Fierce Pharma is recording the regulatory progress of in-market products, including expansions into key geographies and new indications. Some of these updates may not meet the bar for standalone stories, but we think they are still worth mentioning.
 
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This week on “The Top Line,” we hear from Novo Nordisk CSO Marcus Schindler about his role at the Danish pharma and what’s next for the GLP-1 drug class.

 

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