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Three-year patent strategy for greater medicine access announced
The Medicines Patent Pool's 2023-2025 strategy plans to expand medicine access by improving the availability of innovative medicines in low- and middle-income countries.
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Enhertu approved in EU for HER2-low breast cancer
The European Commission has approved Enhertu in the EU as the first HER2-directed therapy for patients with HER2-low metastatic breast cancer.
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First CAR T-cell therapy recommended on NHS
NICE’s recommendation of Yescarta® means it is the first time patients will be able to access CAR T-cell therapy long-term on the NHS.
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Amgen commits $8m to clinical trial diversity programme
The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program has been pledged $8 million over the next four years by Amgen.
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T-cell therapy helps overcome stem cell transplant viral infections
A T-cell therapy that targets six viruses commonly contracted by haematology patients after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, offered 95 percent response in a study.
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Potential blockbuster drugs to watch in 2023
Lecanemab for Alzheimer's and the first potential gene therapy primed for US launch for haemophilia A are two potential blockbuster Drugs to Watch™, says a 2023 report.
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Could BioNTech’s new partnership accelerate personalised mRNA therapy trials?
The UK Government and BioNTech’s new partnership aims to accelerate clinical trials of personalised immunotherapies for cancer and infectious disease vaccines.
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Sanofi licenses Innate Pharma’s NK cell platform with €25m upfront payment
Innate Pharma will receive a €25m upfront payment from Sanofi to license its B7H3 ANKETTM platform, which is creating a new class of molecules to induce synthetic cancer immunity.
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$5 billion bispecific antibody pharma collaboration
As part of a $5 billion collaboration, Akeso Inc. will out-license its PD-1-based bispecific antibody ivonescimab to Summit Therapeutics.
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Vaccines Europe launches first pipeline review
In its first pipeline review, Vaccines Europe has set out four key actions to ensure adults are protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
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mRNA non-vaccine therapeutics to generate $2 billion by 2028
Driven by the approval of pipeline agents, mRNA non-vaccine therapeutics are set to reach $2 billion in sales by 2028, says GlobalData.
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AstraZeneca to acquire Neogene for $320 million
AstraZeneca is set to acquire Neogene Therapeutics to advance T-cell receptor therapies for hard-to-treat cancers like solid tumours.
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Live from CPhI: ‘Gut microbiome therapy to be approved in the next two years’
The promise of microbiome-based therapeutics is rapidly progressing towards real world applications as treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile using faecal microbiota transplant edges towards a BLA.
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JAK inhibitors increase risk of cardiovascular problems and cancer, warns PRAC
Janus kinase inhibitors used for chronic inflammatory conditions are only safe for certain patients, advises the EMA’s safety committee.
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Outsourcing APIs put EU patients at risk
Teva warns APIs could disappear from European factories in five to 10 years if the industry does not see outsourcing essential medicine manufacture as risky.
