The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Bayer’s PI3K inhibitor Aliqopa (copanlisib) for marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) patients who have received two prior therapies.
An entirely new category of medicine is emerging, and a new wave of digital therapeutics start-ups is joining the effort to bring meaning and definition to this new industry.
What started out six years ago as a local ‘passion project’ for Bayer to collaborate with Berlin’s digital health scene has grown into a truly global programme.
Novartis has filed its ophthalmology drug brolucizumab with the US regulator, a potentially strong competitor in the tough market for drugs for the degenerative eye condition wet AMD.
Radiopharmaceuticals are already well established in imaging technology for a range of diseases – but their use to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to cancer cells is also gaining increas