Eli Lilly

As the battle intensifies among AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, and BeiGene in the BTK inhibitor market, Eli Lilly stands out by forging a new direction in the landscape of blood cancer drugs. Just at the beginning of this month, the FDA granted accelerated approval to Lilly’s Jaypirca. This approval is...

FDA Granted Fast Track Designation to Oncternal Therapeutics’s ONCT-534 for the Treatment of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer On Oct. 26, 2023, Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONCT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated ONCT-534, its novel dual-acting andr...

AbbVie Presents Results from Phase III CANOVA Study of Venetoclax in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma AbbVie has released findings from its Phase III CANOVA trial, which assessed the safety and effectiveness of venetoclax (marketed as VENCLEXTA®/VENCLYXTO®) in combination with dexamethasone ...

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 ...

Lilly to Acquire Versanis to Improve Patient Outcomes in Cardiometabolic Diseases Eli Lilly & Company and Versanis Bio announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire Versanis, a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm focused on the discovery of novel medications for the treatment of cardiometab...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is becoming a rapidly growing public health concern due to the rise in the world’s aging population. Based on the data obtained from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, the incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias increased by 147.95 and 160.84%, res...

GSK Acquires Sierra Oncology for USD 1.9 Billion GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy Sierra Oncology and its lead drug assets, momelotinib, for anemia caused by the blood malignancy myelofibrosis. GSK is paying USD 55 per share in cash for Sierra, a 39% premium to the company's closing share price yesterday, valui...

A New Dawn for CRISPR, Intellia Edits Cells Inside the Body Intellia Therapeutics, along with its partner Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, recently announced its successful attempt in editing the cells inside the body leveraging the CRISPR technique. The world’s first-ever trial that has their DNA edited through an in...

Novartis bags Mesoblast's cell therapy, Remestemcel-L for COVID-19 ARDS The COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous pressure on scientists to develop a safe and effective vaccine as early as possible. According to the WHO, there are currently more than 100 COVID-19 vaccine candidates under development, with several...

U.S., AstraZeneca strikes an antibody treatment USD 486 million deal The U.S. government awarded the pharma giant AstraZeneca a sum of USD 486 million for the development of up to 100,000 corona vaccine doses. The deal, under Operation Warp Speed, will people the manufacturing of antibody doses and facilitate th...