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Eisai Submits Marketing Authorization Application In Japan for Anticancer Agent Tasurgratinib For Biliary Tract Cancer With FGFR2 Gene Fusion Eisai Co., Ltd. has officially submitted a request for marketing authorization in Japan for tasurgratinib succinate, its internally developed tyrosine kinase inhibitor tar...

Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia, particularly with an increasing geriatric population, presents a major global crisis. The disease mostly occurs in sexagenarians, but it may manifest in quadragenarians. It is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders with a multifactorial pathogenesis. It ...

Disc Medicine Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for MWTX-003 for the Treatment of Polycythemia Vera On Sept. 20, 2023, Disc Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRON) announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation to MWTX-003 for the treatment of patients with Polycyt...

Astellas Announces FDA Grants Priority Review for Zolbetuximab Biologics License Application Astellas Pharma Inc. announced that the FDA has accepted and granted Priority Review for the company's Biologics Licence Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, a first-in-class investigational Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2)-target...

Incyte Halts Phase III Clinical Trial for Myelofibrosis  Incyte announced the termination of Phase III LIMBER-304 trial after the results of a pre-planned interim analysis conducted by an independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) revealed that the study is unlikely to meet the primary endpoint in the int...

FDA Approves Luye Pharma’s Rykindo for Schizophrenia Luye Pharma has received its first FDA approval for Rykindo, an injectable formulation of the antipsychotic risperidone administered every two weeks. Rykindo has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of schizophrenia as well as...

Ipsen to Acquire Albireo for USD 952 Million Ipsen, a French pharmaceutical company, has offered USD 42 per share for the US biotech Albireo and its rare disease treatment Bylvay, continuing a recent spree of merger and acquisition activity. Albireo, a Boston-based business, is valued at USD 952 million under th...

EISAI now solely responsible for lemborexant Eisai today announced that its U.S. subsidiary has bought out  Purdue Pharma L.P.’s rights in the worldwide collaboration for the development and commercialization of lemborexant, an investigational sleep-wake regulation agent being studied for the treatment of multip...

Alzheimer’s is one of the diseases which are irreversible and untreatable. With causes still unknown adds to the further conundrum.  But for more than two decades now Scientists from everywhere have been working on the “amyloid hypothesis". It has been a long-standing theory that brains of the people affected ...

HER2 Vaccine Candidate Meet Phase 1b Study An Australian biotech company stated its Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) vaccine candidate, HER-Vaxx, successfully finished its phase 1b clinical trial and head to a phase 2 study. The first tranche of data from the 14-patient trial comes...