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Autifony swings $770.5m deal with Jazz for CNS drugs

UK biotech Autifony has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, giving the Ireland-headquartered drugmaker global rights to a pair of ion channel tar

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AZ’s oncology hopes dented as Imfinzi flunks NSCLC trial

AstraZeneca’s cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi broke new ground when it was approved in 2018 for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that can’t be treated with

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AHA: First data backs AskBio’s heart failure gene therapy

Bayer’s AskBio unit has reported the first clinical data for its congestive heart failure gene therapy, showing preliminary signs of efficacy with no serious adverse event

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AHA: One dose of Lilly’s siRNA drug cuts Lp(a) for a year

A first-in-human trial of Eli Lilly’s experimental RNA interference drug lepodisiran has shown that just one dose reduced lipoprotein(a) – a risk factor for cardiovascular

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AHA: Wegovy improves survival in outcomes trial

Novo Nordisk’s obesity therapy Wegovy has cut the risk of death by 19% in the SELECT trial, mirroring the benefits of the drug in cardiovascular outcomes in people who are

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