US mRNA specialist Moderna today announced positive results from a Phase III efficacy study (P304) evaluating the relative vaccine efficacy (rVE) against influenza illness of mRNA-1010, with the news sending its shares up as much as 4.5% to $28.38 in pre-market activity. 30 June 2025
UK drug discovery firm Summit Pharmaceuticals is an Oxford-based drug discovery and development company targeting high-value areas of unmet medical need including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and C. difficile infection.
This week on The Pharma Letter Podcast, we’re joined by Marina Udier, chief executive of Nouscom — a biotech company developing cancer vaccines. 2 July 2025
California biotech Unnatural Products (UNP) announced a strategic multi-target research collaboration with Dutch immunology specialist argenx to discover and develop oral macrocyclic peptide drugs targeting traditionally “undruggable,” disease targets. 2 July 2025
Vertex Pharmaceuticals today announced that the European Commission has granted approval for Alyftrek (deutivacaftor/tezacaftor/vanzacaftor) for the treatment of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) ages six years and older who have at least one non-class I mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. 1 July 2025
Swedish biotech Camurus has secured EU marketing authorization for its once-monthly acromegaly therapy, Oczyesa (octreotide), marking a significant step forward in treatment convenience for patients living with the rare endocrine disorder. 1 July 2025
Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that causes debilitating fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. It impacts nearly 50,000 people in the USA alone1 and between 7.2 and 33.9 per 100,000 individuals across Europe.2 1 July 2025
US pharma major AbbVie is to buy Capstan Therapeutics, a San Diego-based biotech advancing in vivo engineering of cells through RNA delivery using tLNPs, for up to $2.1 billion in cash. 30 June 2025
US mRNA specialist Moderna today announced positive results from a Phase III efficacy study (P304) evaluating the relative vaccine efficacy (rVE) against influenza illness of mRNA-1010, with the news sending its shares up as much as 4.5% to $28.38 in pre-market activity. 30 June 2025
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the elimination of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for currently approved BCMA- and CD19-directed autologous chimeric antigen receptor CAR-T cell immunotherapies. 30 June 2025
Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim has selected a third drug candidate to move forward into IND-enabling studies under its ongoing collaboration with Oxford BioTherapeutics. 3 July 2025
Theratechnologies, a Canada-based biopharma, is to be acquired by CB Biotechnology, an affiliate of Future Pak, a privately-held contract manufacturer, packager and distributor of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. 4 July 2025