Otsuka’s Avanir Encouraged By First Peek At Treatment For Alzheimer’s Agitation

Pipeline Watch is a weekly snapshot of selected late-stage clinical trial events and approvals announced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies at medical and industry conferences, in financial and company presentations, and in company releases and statements.

Seven years after acquiring it, Viatris will seek approval of a meloxicam formulation for acute pain backed by data from two Phase III studies in post-surgical pain settings.

The Phase I results are the best to date among ANGPTL3-targeting candidates in the pipeline, but analysts will wait for further updates before predicting a likely winner.

Houman Ashrafian tells delegates at Swiss Biotech Day that ‘literally only two things matter in our industry – target credentialing and differentiated pharmacology. The rest is execution.’