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A USD 4.2 Billion Myovant/ Pfizer Deal Myovant Sciences have decided to put their forces and efforts together to advance the Prostate cancer market as they announced their partnership deal to develop and market relugolix for prostate cancer and women’s health.  Relugolix is a once-daily, oral gonadotropin-rel...

Gannex received US FDA fast track designation for its NASH drug, ASC42 an FXR Agonist Gannex Pharma has received Fast Track designation approval from FDA for its drug candidate ASC42 for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The FTA designation will help the pharma company to advance its research and development...

Pfizer succeeds COVID-19 vaccine safety milestone Pfizer prepares to file its COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization (EUA) after succeeding a key safety breakthrough. Pfizer now has the median two-month follow-up data needed for securing EUA from the FDA, moving a step closer for bringing its vaccine t...

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine heralded as the showstopper with over 90% effectiveness  Based on the interim data from the Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial results, the pharma titan, Pfizer, announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing coronavirus infection. Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey...

The immune cells of the brain could treat neurodegenerative diseases Human behavior relies on the stimulation and inhibition of neurons, and scientists have long considered that neurons are mainly responsible for maintaining this circuit of activity in balance. However, now, a research team led by the Icahn Scho...

Pfizer, BioNTech report shows the immune response in animals to COVID-19  Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have five potential COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials, each based on a different mRNA format. The companies are now exhibiting that the most advanced candidate, BNT162b2, performed well in trials in ...

The dynamics of the cancer cachexia market is expected to gain momentum as several companies are testing the waters, advancing cancer cachexia pipeline. More than half of the cancer patients suffer from cachexia, and over 30% of the cancer patients succumb to death due to complications that arise from cachexi...

Merck Collaborates with Dewpoint Therapeutics to Cure HIV with Condensates   Merck has forged a collaboration with Boston-based Dewpoint Therapeutics to treat HIV using Dewpoint’s proprietary platform for condensate-based drug discovery.Under the terms of the agreement, Dewpoint is eligible for receiving ...

Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually lea...

Sarepta Therapeutics, a leading player focused in developing precision genetic medicines for rare diseases with more than 25 programs ongoing, has recently announced the submission of New Drug Application (NDA) to the US FDA for Casimersen (SRP-4045) for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with a gen...