News Agios shares slide as it abandons sickle cell candidate Agios Pharma has said it will halt clinical development of tebapivat, a PK activator that had reached phase 2 testing in sickle cell disease.
News Vertex gets paediatric FDA okay for Casgevy gene therapy For the first time, children in the US as young as two with blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia are eligible for gene therapy.
News Novo Nordisk preps filings for sickle cell drug etavopivat Novo Nordisk has claimed a key win in its head-to-head race with Agios to bring an oral PKR activator to the market for sickle cell disease.
News Agios mulls early FDA filing for sickle cell therapy Agios is planning to file its sickle cell disease candidate mitapivat with the FDA under the accelerated pathway within the next few months.
News Agios shares slump on sickle cell disease data Shares in Agios lost nearly half their value after it posted mixed clinical results from a phase 3 trial of its sickle cell disease therapy mitapivat.
News Pfizer suffers another hit to its GBT sickle cell portfolio Pfizer's $5.4 billion takeover of Global Blood Therapeutics three years ago is starting to look like a poor deal.
News TransThera's resistant biliary cancer drug cleared in China TransThera's Yochanra has been cleared in China as the world's first drug that can overcome resistance to FGFR inhibitors in cholangiocarcinoma.
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