AbbVie has extended its collaboration with gene therapy specialist Voyager Therapeutics, adding a new programme in Parkinson’s disease and another $1.5 billion in potential fees.
UK-based biotech ReNeuron has announced encouraging results from an early stage trial of its cell therapy for the rare blindness-causing disease, retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
Just a few months after Immune Design saw its shares crater on a phase II fail, Merck & Co/MSD has agreed a deal to acquire the biotech and its immuno-oncology and vaccines pipeline.
Pfizer is moving rheumatoid arthritis patients to a lower dose of its blockbuster inflammatory diseases pill Xeljanz in a clinical study, after a safety signal emerged in the trial of patie
Pfizer and Eli Lilly have announced more positive results from a phase 3 study of their non-opioid pain drug tanezumab, this time in chronic lower back pain (CBLP).
The US FDA has approved Merck & Co’s Keytruda as an adjuvant treatment for patients with melanoma who have had surgery but still show some evidence of cancer in their lymph nodes.