Outlook 2024
Annual Industry Ranking And Forecast
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Novo raises its top- and bottom-line guidance as it prioritizes volume over price.
Executives said during Amgen’s Q1 call that the company is “encouraged” by interim Phase II data for MariTide (AMG 133) in obesity, so it is designing Phase III trials and building manufacturing capacity.
The US Food and Drug Administration has requested additional efficacy information on the supplemental filing in the potentially large new indication.
Ichnos Glenmark Innovation’s president and CEO talks to Scrip about the promising activity profile of the alliance’s early stage trispecific antibody versus Janssen’s teclistamab and also maintains that the setback for Gilead’s magrolimab hasn’t eclipsed prospects for its bispecific antibody.
Recent moves in the industry also include C-suite shuffles at Faron Pharmaceuticals and new chief financial officers at Orion, BioVaxys Technology and Cullinan Therapeutics.
BMS partners with Repertoire and Scenic, plus deals involving: G1/Pepper, Harmony/Epygenix, Biodexa/Emtora, Regeneron/Mammoth, Vertex/Treefrog and Immedica/KKR/Impilo.
Restructuring Edition: Even big pharma companies are not immune from workforce reductions. BMS and Sanofi joined that ranks of Evotec, CureVac and BenevolentAI in cutting jobs. Also, Vaxxinity will de-list and Hepion winds down its NASH trial, among other strategic updates.
In this video interview, Sharon Chan, vice-president, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS Asia Pacific, shares her views on what South Korea’s strengths are as a biotech and medtech R&D hub, JLABS's plans in the country and what role it wants for its local activities domestically and beyond.
In this video interview, Sharon Chan, vice-president, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS Asia Pacific, shares her views on what South Korea’s strengths are as a biotech and medtech R&D hub, JLABS's plans in the country and what role it wants for its local activities domestically and beyond.
Ono’s just-announced purchase of Deciphera has put the tenosynovial giant cell tumor space under the spotlight and SynOx is making strides to stay at the head of the pack helped by significant financing.
UK-based Ochre Bio has signed its first major deal with Boehringer Ingelheim. Scrip talked to its co-founder and CEO, Jack O’Meara, about its human tissue-based drug discovery platform, its resulting RNA platform for liver disease and how the fledgling drug company's early work mirrored that seen in diagnostics.
Ichnos Glenmark Innovation’s president and CEO talks to Scrip about the promising activity profile of the alliance’s early stage trispecific antibody versus Janssen’s teclistamab and also maintains that the setback for Gilead’s magrolimab hasn’t eclipsed prospects for its bispecific antibody.
Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty toppled after recording the highest ever annual sales for a pharmaceutical in 2022, while Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic climbed rapidly. But Merck & Co’s immuno-oncology blockbuster Keytruda was secure in the number one spot in 2023 as COVID-19 receded.
The highs of the COVID-19 era, and the lows that supplanted it, are beginning to fade.
A year is a long time in biopharma. Pharmaprojects’ annual pipeline review finds changes in the therapeutic spread of drug candidates and a reordering of the top R&D companies, as Chinese firms made their presence felt all the more over the past 12 months.
A look at the depth of clinical responses seen with various MASH therapies suggests that Madrigal could eventually face serious competition.
The acquisition of Mariana will complement Novartis’s lutetium-based radioligand therapies with candidates using actinium. Lilly, Bristol and AstraZeneca all have made recent high-priced buys in the space.
Moderna has cut short its alliance with Metagenomi, giving it more work to do in persuading skeptical investors about its gene-editing platform.
Recent moves in the industry also include C-suite shuffles at Faron Pharmaceuticals and new chief financial officers at Orion, BioVaxys Technology and Cullinan Therapeutics.
The weak yen helped push up both global revenues and costs for major Japanese firms in the fiscal year ended 31 March, while good mainstay growth benefited Daiichi Sankyo and Astellas. Chugai meanwhile had a challenging start to its calendar financial year due to lower pandemic drug stockpiling.
BMS partners with Repertoire and Scenic, plus deals involving: G1/Pepper, Harmony/Epygenix, Biodexa/Emtora, Regeneron/Mammoth, Vertex/Treefrog and Immedica/KKR/Impilo.
Pfizer’s management team addressed topics ranging from COVID-19 revenues to Medicare’s drug negotiation program and new product launches.
Astellas is building off an existing relationship with the biotech formed last August, joining the growing number of large pharmas looking at tackling solid tumors with cell therapy.
C-suite leaders from Lilly, Roche and J&J spoke at a Citeline-sponsored panel at Swiss Biotech Day in Basel and offered encouragement to start-ups trying to negotiate the tricky financial landscape.
Things are looking up for the UK company with growing dominance for Arexvy among respiratory syncytial virus shots and international growth for shingles vaccine Shingrix
A material shift in China derisking discussions by big biopharma against the backdrop of the proposed US BIOSECURE Bill is seen presenting opportunities for Syngene, though the tight US biotech funding environment dampened demand for the Indian CRDMO’s R&D services in Q4.
Buntanetap has flopped in Alzheimer’s disease, making an upcoming Parkinson’s trial a must-win. But there are reasons to doubt the outcome of this study, and Annovis is running out of money.
Quietly but unambiguously, pharma firms are accelerating their diversification away from China and are now looking to other emerging markets for growth, a strategy that reflects increasing pressures from China's volume-based procurement scheme but also US-China tensions and other geopolitical risks.
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