While the traditional players such as Pfizer and GSK, as well as newcomer AstraZeneca, are hot in pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Swiss major is sticking to drugs, the area where "we do have deep expertise," CEO Vas Narasimhan told journalists.
While most of the world's attention is on developing a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine, Novartis AG, which exited the space five years ago, has confirmed that it has no intention of going back in.
Having been a major player in vaccines, the Swiss major got out of the field after a $20bn asset swap...
One Phase III trial hits but a second study misses by a mile.
The new US FDA vaccine guidelines introduced on 20 May might cause financial woes for Moderna, but overall vaccine makers should not be as impacted as feared.
Kostaive is the first self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval from the European Commission and could provide serious competition to Pfizer/BioNTech's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax.
A week after a downbeat forecast at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the US mRNA specialist has pocketed another sizeable sum from the US Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate development of an H5N1 mRNA pandemic influenza vaccine.
Reimbursement rules are disincentivizing innovation, according to Vas Narasimhan.
Recent moves in the industry include changes at the top at Ascentage Pharma, Inventiva and Brenig Therapeutics, plus five companies get new CFOs.
As AI-driven firms like Insilico, big pharma like J&J, Amgen, GSK and AstraZeneca and Chinese and Indian firms like BeOne and Dr. Reddy’s respectively advance PRMT5 inhibitor candidates, what’s driving interest, what could lead to the first global approval and what are the challenges ahead?
