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Takeda secures FDA approval for colon cancer drug

Bio Pharma Dive

The pharma paid $400 million to license the drug from Hutchmed earlier this year in an effort to bolster its oncology business.

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US FDA approves Eisai-Biogen’s antibody for Alzheimer’s

Pharmaceutical Technology

Eisai and Biogen have received approval for their antibody Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb) , 100mg/mL injection for intravenous use, from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Accelerated Approval Pathway to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu gets US FDA approval for breast cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo ’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has received expanded approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-low (IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH-) breast cancer.

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AstraZeneca’s Voydeya Scores FDA Approval, Adding to Company’s Multi-Billion Dollar PNH Franchise

XTalks

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to AstraZeneca’s Voydeya (danicopan) as an add-on therapy to the company’s standard-of-care C5 inhibitors Ultomiris (ravulizumab) or Soliris (eculizumab) for the treatment of extravascular hemolysis (EVH) in adults with the rare blood disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH).

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Fierce Pharma Asia—AstraZeneca's GLP-1 play; Takeda's cancer drug approval; BioNTech's bispecific deal

Fierce Pharma

AstraZeneca licensed an oral GLP-1 agonist from China's Eccogene. Takeda won FDA approval for the Hutchmed-developed colorectal cancer drug Fruzaqla. AstraZeneca licensed an oral GLP-1 agonist from China's Eccogene. Takeda won FDA approval for Hutchmed-developed colorectal cancer drug Fruzaqla.

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Gilead wins patent battle with US government over HIV PrEP drugs

Pharmaceutical Technology

Gilead Sciences has emerged victorious in a legal battle with the US government over patents surrounding the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs Descovy and Truvada following a federal jury’s verdict on May 9. The FDA approved Truvada as the first PrEP treatment in July 2012, with Descovy receiving a nod for this use in October 2019.

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Cyfendus Anthrax Vaccine Wins FDA Approval

XTalks

Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has achieved a significant milestone with the approval of its Cyfendus (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed, Adjuvanted) vaccine by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Overall, 66.3 on Day 64 in the study.