Novartis’s Peanut Allergy Setback Perks Up Rivals

Opportunity could knock for the smaller but more specialized players in the peanut allergy space now that Novartis has halted trials of its investigational IgE inhibitor ligelizumab.

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The news that Novartis AG has terminated a late-stage peanut allergy trial of one of its more closely watched assets, ligelizumab, looks like good news for other players in the space, notably DBV Technologies and ALK-Abello A/S.

It emerged last week that the Swiss major had halted a Phase III trial of ligelizumab for peanut allergy based...

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