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Post-approval R&D key in advancing oncology treatments

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new report from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has highlighted the importance of post-approval R&D in advancing oncology treatment options and delivering unprecedented progress over the past ten years.

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Top biopharmaceutical Covid-19 vaccine companies boosted with over 80% revenue growth

Pharmaceutical Technology

However, the FDA's approval of Lumakras for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in May last year has a global analyst consensus sales forecast of $336m for this year, according to GlobalData’s Drugs Database. BMS expects to see a YoY decrease in its sales of Revlimid from this year onwards. Amgen reported only a marginal 2.2%

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Dawn of a new indication: how to study drugs for aging 

Pharmaceutical Technology

Currently, most drugs being investigated for their healthy aging or anti-aging properties are being repurposed from readily accessible FDA-approved drugs. Barzilai hopes that the well-established profile of the drug may allow the FDA to accept the trial more easily and then other aging-related studies can follow.

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2022 in review: Regulation starts to catch up with AI in pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

In pharmaceutical research, this may help secure the privacy of patient data used by AI systems and decrease bias due to ethnicity, sex and other factors. FDA and EMA action.

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Pharma, patient advocates clash over Inflation Reduction Act

Pharmaceutical Technology

However, Randy Burkholder, vice president of policy and research for the industry group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), said this provision amounted to government “price setting” that would harm future research and development efforts.

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Primate models in pharma: What the future holds

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical research has long relied on non-human primate models for early-stage discoveries, but their use continues to cause controversy. Globally, non-human primates make up a relatively small percentage of the animals used in research. The ABPI points to the FDA in the US as an example.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.