DUBLIN – Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP) announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase a drug product manufacturing facility from EirGen Pharma, an OPKO Health Company (Nasdaq: OPK) in Waterford, Ireland. The facility, which is located in an IDA Ireland business park, includes a filling line and lyophiliser,...
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DUBLIN – Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Viela Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIE) (“Viela”). “The Viela acquisition provides multiple opportunities to drive long-term growth and solidify our future as an innovation-driven biotech company,” said Tim Walbert, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Horizon....
DUBLIN – Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP), in partnership with MIT Solve, a marketplace for social impact innovation, today announced it has created a first-of-its-kind annual global innovation challenge called The Horizon Prize focused on speeding diagnosis and care for people impacted by rare disease. Each year, The Horizon Prize will...
DUBLIN – Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a prior approval supplement (PAS) to the previously approved Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) giving Horizon authorization to manufacture more TEPEZZA drug product resulting in an increased number of vials with each...
New York, NY – A new study led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) suggests that currently available therapies may help control chronic muscle inflammation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe condition that leads to muscle weakness and premature death. The study, published in PNAS, identifies new...
NEW YORK – Hoth Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTH) a patient-focused clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced it submitted an Orphan Drug Designation Request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for HT-KIT for the treatment of mastocytosis. HT-KIT is an antisense oligonucleotide that targets the proto-oncogene cKIT by inducing mRNA frameshifting, resulting in the...
NEW YORK – Hoth Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTH), a biopharmaceutical company, today announced it has executed an agreement with REPROCELL Ltd., a contract research organization (CRO), providing a unique combination of products and services to power translational research, to assess the effect of the HT-003 therapeutic platform on tissue from ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease patients. Fresh...
WASHINGTON — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is currently facing a major financing shortfall. While the Foreign Operations subcommittee provided a welcome increase over the President’s request, today’s markup suggests that the U.S. is going to fall far short of its commitment to fund fully its...
L-Asparaginase is one of the key drugs used to treat children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). However, some children fail to achieve therapeutic levels of L-asparaginase after receiving the drug. The mechanisms underlying such therapeutic failure are not well defined. But now, Vaskar Saha and colleagues, at the Paterson Institute...
Mumbai, India – In November last year, Pratiksha Mane, 48, underwent surgery for Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of breast cancer. She was diagnosed with cancer in her right breast, which was conserved post sugery by doctors at Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre. As per the American Academy of...