amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Survodutide Phase II trial Shows Groundbreaking Results in Liver Disease due to MASH, with Significant Improvements in Fibrosis Boehringer Ingelheim has reported that in a Phase II trial, a significant proportion of adults treated with survodutide (BI 456906), up to 83.0%, showed a notable enhancement in metabol...

FDA Grants Priority Review to Luspatercept for First-line Treatment of Anemia in Lower-risk MDS The FDA has granted priority review to a supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) seeking to expand the current indication of luspatercept-aamt (Reblozyl) to include treatment of anemia in patients with very ...

HUTCHMED Completes Rolling Submission of NDA to FDA for Fruquintinib HUTCHMED (China) Limited announced the completion of the rolling submission of a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for fruquintinib, its highly selective and potent oral inhibitor of VEGFR-1,...

Sage Therapeutics Receives EU Orphan Drug Designation for Huntington's Disease Treatment Candidate Sage Therapeutics declared the European Medicines Agency granted Orphan Drug Designation to SAGE-718 for the treatment of Huntington's disease. SAGE-718 is developing as a potential oral therapy for cognitive disor...

Merck Wins Another FDA Approval for Blockbuster Keytruda Merck & Co arrived just two months after GSK celebrated a positive phase III result with its checkpoint inhibitor Jemperli as a first-line therapy for endometrial cancer. Keytruda (pembrolizumab) from Merck improved progression-free survival (PFS) vers...

Mitsubishi replacing RADICAVA’s Intravenous (IV) formulation with Oral. Opinion on Amylyx Pharma’s recent approval, RELYVRIO  The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment landscape is stringent and includes multidisciplinary care, such as physical therapy, speech therapy, dietary counseling, heat or whirlpoo...

Zealand Pharma Announces the Positive Topline Results from its Phase III trial of Glepaglutide Zealand Pharma A/S, a biotech company specializing in peptide-based medicines, announced positive topline results from its phase III trial of glepaglutide. In the evenly randomized double-blind trial, 106 patients with...

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo and Yervoy Combo Fails in Phase III Trial Bristol-Myers Squibb has reported that their Opdivo and Yervoy checkpoint inhibitor combo failed a phase III trial as adjuvant (post-surgery) therapy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most frequent type of kidney cancer. The CheckMate -914...

Biogen terminates USD 217 Million ALS Pact with Karyopharm Biogen has backed out of the four-year-old partnership with Karyopharm on a drug candidate for the neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which could have cost the US biotech up to USD 217 million. The 2018 agreement that granted Biogen righ...

Love Pharma Completes the Acquisition of MicroDoz Therapy LOVE Pharma Co. has announced the completion of its acquisition of MicroDoz Theraphy Inc. ("MicroDoz"). Love Pharma holds exclusive manufacturing, marketing, packaging, selling, and distribution licenses in Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America. U...