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1. Merck reports mixed data for Lucentis competitor in diabetic macular edema
2. Asahi Kasei lands approval for new HSV treatment
3. Brent Saunders abruptly exits Bausch + Lomb, ending second stint as CEO
4. GSK to invest $800M for new R&D, manufacturing hub in Pennsylvania 
5. Bristol Myers reveals a pair of Phase 3 wins for fibrosis, RayzeBio drugs
6. AstraZeneca blames trial design for Phase 3 failure of bone disease drug
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Nicole DeFeudis
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Merck has been hungry to expand its pipeline ahead of Keytruda’s upcoming patent cliff. But as BMO analysts spelled out on Sunday, “not all BD deals become winners.” It appears that might be the case for remigromig, an eye candidate Merck acquired in its $1.3 billion upfront deal for EyeBio. I wrote about remigromig’s mixed pivotal readout here. In the meantime, we’ll be keeping an eye on other prospects in Merck’s late-stage pipeline.

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Nicole DeFeudis
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by Nicole DeFeudis

Mer­ck’s oph­thal­mol­o­gy can­di­date, remi­gromig, met the pri­ma­ry end­point in a piv­otal study, but the full re­sults raise ques­tions about the drug’s com­mer­cial prospects.

Mer­ck said...

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by Max Bayer

Japan­ese phar­ma Asahi Ka­sei Ther­a­peu­tics has snagged FDA ap­proval for a her­pes treat­ment that it ac­quired ear­ly this year in an al­most $1 bil­lion deal...

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by Andrew Dunn

Brent Saun­ders, one of bio­phar­ma’s most promi­nent deal­mak­ers and high­est-paid lead­ers, is out as CEO of Bausch + Lomb, fail­ing to add an­oth­er multi­bil­lion-dol­lar com­pa­ny...

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by Anna Brown

GSK has bud­get­ed more than $800 mil­lion to grow its Penn­syl­va­nia foot­print, its sec­ond ex­pan­sion in the state in two years.

The com­pa­ny  will...

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by Max Gelman

Bris­tol My­ers Squibb re­port­ed two Phase 3 suc­cess­es on Mon­day morn­ing, in­clud­ing for an ex­per­i­men­tal drug that re­cent­ly ran in­to safe­ty is­sues.

A tri­al test­ing...

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by Ayisha Sharma

New de­tails from As­traZeneca's failed Phase 3 tri­al of its en­zyme re­place­ment ther­a­py for a ge­net­ic bone dis­ease sug­gest the study missed its goals be­cause...

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