atopic dermatitis
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Nektar Sues Eli Lilly, Claiming the Big Pharma Breached Contract to Favor Another Drug
“Botched math” in calculating clinical data for an autoimmune disease drug is one of the allegations Nektar Therapeutics makes in a legal complaint against Eli Lilly. The biotech claims its former partner tried to disadvantage the asset in order to advance development of another drug it acquired in a billion dollar deal.
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Two Biotechs Break the IPO Dry Spell, Raising $385M Combined
Inflammation and immunology biotech Apogee Therapeutics and Sagimet Biosciences, a company developing a drug for the fatty liver disease NASH, are the latest biotech companies to join the public markets. Both companies upsized their IPOs, raising cash for clinical trials.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Immunology & Inflammation Biotech Apogee Plans IPO to Demo Dosing Edge in Eczema
Apogee Therapeutics is planning an IPO to fund clinical development of biologic drugs that could offer dosing advantages over currently available immunology and inflammation drugs. Its lead program is being prepared for Phase 1 testing in atopic dermatitis, or eczema.
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Sanofi Takes Baton From Kymera to Bring Protein-Degrading Drug Into Phase 2
While most targeted protein degradation drug research has focused on cancer, Kymera Therapeutics’ Phase 1 data bring validation for this approach in treating inflammation. Kymera partner Sanofi has elected to advance the biotech’s program to mid-stage testing in two inflammatory skin disorders.
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LEO Pharma’s FDA nod adds a challenger to Dupixent’s dominance in eczema
With FDA approval for its atopic dermatitis drug Adbry, LEO Pharma will reach the U.S market ahead of an Eli Lilly atopic dermatitis drug that addresses the same target. LEO will also able to offer patients an alternative to the blockbuster Sanofi/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals drug Dupixent.
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Pfizer: $6.7B Arena buyout complements rather than replaces JAK drugs
Sales of blockbuster Pfizer drug Xeljanz are under pressure from a stronger safety warning placed across that drug’s entire class. In acquiring Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 billion, Pfizer gets a lead compound with a different and potentially safer approach to treating inflammatory conditions.
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Better late than never? Eczema drug now approved, Incyte says warning unwarranted
Atopic dermatitis patients now have a new therapeutic option that comes as a topical cream. The FDA approved Incyte’s drug, Opzelura, as a treatment for the inflammatory skin condition, but the regulatory nod comes with a black box warning on the label that broadly covers the entire class of JAK inhibitors.
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Pfizer eczema contender beats Dupixent in study, but JAK drug class is still in limbo
Pfizer has preliminary data showing its experimental drug for atopic dermatitis beat a blockbuster drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in a head-to-head clinical trial. But the future of that drug and others might depend more on an FDA review of safety data for medicines in this class of so-called JAK inhibitors.
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Eying eczema, Amgen pays $400M to co-develop Phase 3-ready Kyowa Kirin drug
Amgen is paying Kyowa Kirin $400 million to share in the development of a drug that could offer a new approach to treating atopic dermatitis, a form of eczema. The deal comes months after Japan-based Kyowa Kirin reported positive preliminary Phase 2 data for its antibody.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
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Pfizer gets positive top-line results from Phase III atopic dermatitis study
The company is developing abrocitinib, a JAK1 inhibitor, for the disease. Incyte is also developing a topical formulation of its JAK2 inhibitor for atopic dermatitis.
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Dermatitis, respiratory drug drives Regeneron-Sanofi collaboration to profitability
The companies also reported a European dermatitis approval and successful topline results from a Phase III study of the drug, Dupixent.
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