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STAT+: Drugmakers ask regulators to change standards on new Covid antibody drugs for most vulnerable

STAT News

and European regulators on Thursday to adopt new standards for approving antibody drugs against Covid, particularly for immunocompromised and other vulnerable patients. Biotech executives and a handful of academics pleaded with U.S.

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FDA Lifts Hold on Mersana’s Antibody-Drug Conjugate Following Patient Death

BioSpace

The regulator has released Mersana Therapeutics’ antibody-drug conjugate XMT-2056 from its clinical hold, allowing the biotech to proceed with Phase I studies of the candidate with a lower starting dose.

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Three regulators accept Bristol Myers’ applications for myeloma therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

Three regulators in different jurisdictions have accepted Bristol Myers Squibb’s applications for Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel) for earlier use to treat triple-class exposed relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma in adult patients. Abecma treatment showed improvement in progression-free survival and overall response rate.

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Innovation in immuno-oncology: Leading companies in tumour antibody serum compositions

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Tumour antibody serum compositions. The production of antibodies in response to proteins expressed during cancer development serves as a biomarker.

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Regeneron says antibody drug may speed recovery of patients with mild COVID-19

Bio Pharma Dive

Preliminary study data suggest the treatment could help people whose bodies aren't already fighting off infection, a finding the biotech is discussing with regulators.

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Health Canada accepts Eisai-Biogen’s NDS for Alzheimer’s disease antibody

Pharmaceutical Technology

Health Canada has accepted a new drug submission (NDS) for Eisai and Biogen ’s lecanemabto to treat early Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Lecanemab is an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril antibody directed against aggregated soluble (protofibril), as well as insoluble forms of Aβ.

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EU Antitrust Regulators Clear Pfizer’s $43B Acquisition of Seagen

BioSpace

Despite increasing antitrust scrutiny across the biopharma industry, the European Commission on Thursday said it found no competitive issues with Pfizer’s buyout of the antibody-drug conjugate company.