Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Ablynx adds Sanofi to its list of pharma partners

Belgian nanobody-developer Ablynx NV now also works together with French pharma company Sanofi. The deal is potentially worth €2.4bn but comes with an upfront payment of just €23m. The partners will initially focus on therapeutics for the treatment of various immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

UK invests £86m in healthcare SMEs

The UK government has set up a new fund to support medical innovation. Breakthrough innovations that have the potential to benefit the NHS will also undergo accelerated access review aimed at speeding up access to novel medicines. 

German PEI limits use of daclizumab

Following a safety warning of the EMA on deaths related to Biogen’s multiple scleroisis (MS) drug Zinbryta (daclizumab), German regulatory authority has issued a red hand letter.

Psoriasis: FDA approves guselkumab

The Food and Drug Administration has granted US market approval to Janssen Biotech/MorphoSys’ IL23 blocker guselkumab (Temfya) as therapy for moderate to severe psoriasis.

ODAC greenlights Novartis’ CAR-T cell therapy CTL019

Swiss Novartis is about to receive the very first market approval (BLA) for a CAR-T cell cancer therapy globally. The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) recommended approval of CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel) for the treatment of the orphan B-cell blood cancer ALL.

Enterome and Nestlé form JV

French gut microbiome analysis specialist Enterome Bioscience SA and therapeutic nutrition company Nestlé Health Science have formed a 50:50 joint venture aimed at developing microbiome-based diagnostics for certain common diseases.