Tue.Aug 03, 2021

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FDA allows Novartis gene therapy trials to resume after nearly two year pause

Bio Pharma Dive

After reviewing animal study data submitted by the Swiss pharma, the FDA cleared spinal injections of Zolgensma for study in older patients with SMA.

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F.D.A. Aims to Give Final Approval to Pfizer Vaccine by Early Next Month

NY Times

The Food and Drug Administration’s move is expected to kick off more vaccination mandates for hospital workers, college students and federal troops.

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After controversial approval, doctors are still debating how to use Biogen's Alzheimer's drug

Bio Pharma Dive

Nearly two months since Aduhelm became available, many physicians have yet to use the first treatment approved in the U.S. to slow Alzheimer's disease.

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Pharmaceutical industry must fix broken supply chain: Phlow

Outsourcing Pharma

A leader from the company says to ensure medicines keep reaching the patients that need them, the industry must revamp outdated technologies and techniques.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Sanofi bets $3.2B on mRNA with deal to buy Translate Bio

Bio Pharma Dive

The acquisition is a sign of how more and more large pharmaceutical companies view messenger RNA as an essential drug-making technology.

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Psychedelics research institute launches in Australia

Outsourcing Pharma

The Psychae Institute, established by a global team of scientists, will conduct pre-clinical and clinical research around psychedelic medicine development.

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mRNA and beyond: Opportunities for US biologics

Outsourcing Pharma

The success of mRNA vaccine technology could be one of the new opportunities for US pharmaceutical manufacturing looking forward, with pandemic investments helping turbocharge the sector.

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Ophthalmology Companies See Global Opportunities for Next-Gen, Non-Invasive Therapies

BioSpace

Ophthalmology has become a focal point for private equity and venture capitalists in the past 18 months, despite being a small niche in the biopharmaceutical space.

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Novartis cleared to restart trials of new Zolgensma delivery route

pharmaphorum

The FDA has relaxed a clinical hold on clinical trials of Novartis’ intrathecal formulation of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy Zolgensma, allowing a new phase 3 trial to get underway. Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) is already approved as an intravenous treatment in babies and very young children for the rare muscle-wasting disease, but the new OAV-101 IT version is designed to unlock use of the drug in older SMA patients.

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Counterproductive Career Advice That You Should Ignore

BioSpace

Getting job-hunting and career advice is hard, especially when you get it from those who have worked for decades. Some advice is still helpful today, like making a good impression, but others are considered counter-productive.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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Gov’t launches study on COVID-19 vaccine dose interval for pregnant women

Pharma Times

The study will be the largest clinical trial of its kind in the UK, involving over 600 pregnant women

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Bio NC Continues to Boom as More Companies Settle and Expand

BioSpace

North Carolina’s biopharma business continues to expand at a rapid pace. Not only has the state’s hub in the Research Triangle Park continued to prosper, but companies are expanding in other areas across the state as well.

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Black Women’s Group Launches Lawsuit Against Johnson & Johnson Over Targeted Baby Powder Ads

XTalks

After years of Johnson & Johnson baby powder ads targeted to black women, an advocacy group is seeking retribution by suing the healthcare conglomerate. The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) filed a lawsuit last week asking courts to make Johnson & Johnson create equally targeted “corrective marketing,” and/or fund outreach efforts warning Black women and their families about the risk of ovarian cancer associated with its product.

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Sonoma Scores $265 Million to Restore Immune System Balance

BioSpace

Sonoma BioTherapeutics continues to work toward its goal of restoring immune system balance through complementary regulatory T cell therapy and effector T cell conditioning, this time with the help of an oversubscribed Series B round.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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Tecentriq wins FDA priority review for certain early NSCLC patients

Pharma Times

Tecentriq is first and only cancer immunotherapy with positive Phase III results in adjuvant lung cancer setting

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Biofacturing Firm Posts Loss Just Three Months After IPO, CEO Steps Down

BioSpace

?Shares of Zymergen plummeted by 68% Tuesday from its April IPO price of $31 per share to just $11.7 per share after news that the company will not likely see revenue anytime soon.

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CMA fines Advanz over ‘excessive and unfair’ pricing of thyroid drug

Pharma Times

The £100m fine sends ‘a clear message’ to the pharma sector, said the CMA

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Syntec Runs Afoul of FDA with Several GMP Infractions

BioSpace

Specifically, the FDA states Syntec has critical issues with how the pharmaceutical manufacturer handles active pharmaceutical ingredients, issues that may compromise the safety of the firm’s manufactured drugs.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.

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PMPRB excessive price decision quashed by Federal Court of Appeal

Pharma in Brief

The Federal Court of Appeal has quashed an excessive-price decision of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ) in a proceeding concerning the drug SOLIRIS. The matter has been remitted to the PMPRB for redetermination. Procedural background. The PMPRB issued a decision in 2017 finding that Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. sold SOLIRIS (eculizumab) at an excessive price in Canada and ordering Alexion to remit excess revenues earned between 2009 and 2017.

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AbbVie’s Humira Sales Drop Internationally from Biosimilar Competition, but Not in the U.S.

BioSpace

?Biosimilars have gained traction in Europe, but not in the U.S. AbbVie’s Humira is often made as an example of how companies are using legal tactics to delay biosimilar competition.

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Spotlight on single-use systems: 3 trends driving demand

BioPharma Reporter

Adoption of single-use technologies has grown exponentially over the last decade: but what will drive the tech forward in the coming years?

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4 Reasons Why Employee Engagement is More Important than Ever for Companies

BioSpace

What is the culture like at your company? Are employees motivated to do their best work? Or are most people just going through the motions: clocking in, clocking out and collecting a paycheck?

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.

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Sanofi boosts its mRNA capabilities with Translate Bio acquisition

Pharma Times

Sanofi will acquire Translate Bio for approximately $3.2bn, or $38.

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355 New Jobs for NC as Amgen Announces New Holly Springs Biologics Site

BioSpace

The new $550 million site in N.C. follows the advanced packaging plant in Ohio that will significantly expand the company’s manufacturing capacity in the U.S.

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Sanofi to acquire Translate Bio to develop mRNA tech across vaccines and therapeutics

BioPharma Reporter

Sanofi will acquire clinical-stage mRNA therapeutics company Translate Bio for $3.2bn.

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Ardelyx to Cut a Third of Workforce in Fallout from Surprise FDA Rejection

BioSpace

Ardelyx indicates the restructuring plan will save $17 million in annual cash compensation although there will be a restructuring charge of about $3.4 million.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Sanofi swoops on partner Translate, buying the mRNA firm for $3.2bn

pharmaphorum

Sanofi has been forging ever-closer ties with its mRNA partner Translate Bio since the two started working together in 2018, and has now gone all in, offering $3.2 billion to buy the company outright. The $38-per-share deal – a 56% premium to Translate’s recent share price before an after-hours surge in the stock on rumours of the deal yesterday – has already been cleared by the boards of both companies and is due to close in the third quarter.

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AbCellera to Collaborate with Tachyon, EQRx on Therapeutic Antibodies for Cancer

BioSpace

The company struck two separate collaborations over the past two days in order to advance the development of new, innovative medications.

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How to balance the patient voice atop the shifting plates of HTA

pharmaphorum

The tectonic plates of healthcare technology assessment (HTA) have shifted – but where does the patient voice fit within this new evaluation paradigm? Recent advances in medical science, from genomics and gene therapies to artificial intelligence (AI), have transformed the healthcare landscape, and triggered a review of NICE’s methods and processes.

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Schrödinger and Zai Lab Partner in Innovative Precision Oncology Space

BioSpace

Schrödinger and Zai Lab have announced a worldwide development and commercialization collaboration to advance a novel oncology program targeting the DNA damage repair pathway.

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.