Shares of Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc (RETA.O) tripled in value on Wednesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its rare disease drug, ending years of uncertainty over its future.
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MILAN – Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati (RECI.MI) has signed an agreement to buy UK-headquartered EUSA Pharma for an enterprise value of 750 million euros ($847 million) to boost its rare disease products portfolio, it said in a statement on Friday. EUSA Pharma, founded in 2015 and controlled by funds managed by...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Recursion, a leading clinical stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery, today announced it has signed an agreement with Bayer AG to in-license a new chemical entity that emerged from the companies’ fibrosis research collaboration. The compound represents a novel approach to treating...
TEL-AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, N.C. — RedHill Biopharma Ltd. a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its two novel, oral host-directed investigational drugs, opaganib and RHB-107 (upamostat) demonstrated robust synergistic effect when combined individually with remdesivir (Veklury), significantly improving viral inhibition while maintaining cell viability, in a new U.S. Army-funded...
TEL AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH – RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today reported its financial results and operational highlights for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. Dror Ben-Asher, RedHill’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Our U.S. commercial business continues to drive growth, delivering a second consecutive quarterly net...
WASHINGTON, DC – Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) who received frequent tests for immunoglobulin G (IgG) were less likely to experience severe infections compared with those who didn’t, according to a study published in Blood Advances. Moreover, only half of patients undergo such testing. Patients...
Guelph, Canada – A new editorial paper was published in Oncotarget entitled, “Reductive carboxylation of glutamine as a potential target in acute myeloid leukemia.” In this new editorial, researchers Alessia Roma, Lawrence D. Goodridge and Paul A. Spagnuolo from the University of Guelph discuss acute myeloid leukemia (AML) — an...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Reese Pharmaceutical is expanding its over-the-counter (OTC) diagnostic portfolio with the launch of ColoTest®, an at-home Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) that identifies the presence of hidden blood in the stool in support of the early detection of colon cancer or gastrointestinal disorders such as colitis, diverticulitis, and polyps....
Evkeeza is a first-in-class medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Commission (EC) to treat an ultra-rare inherited form of high cholesterol TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and NOVATO, C.A. – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. today announced a license and collaboration agreement for Ultragenyx...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the approval of Evkeeza® (evinacumab-dgnb) as an adjunct to other lipid-lowering therapies to treat children aged 5 to 11 with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Evkeeza is the first angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3) inhibitor treatment indicated for...