Sanofi acquires US biopharma firm Blueprint Medicines for $9.1 billion

Adds fast-growing and only approved medicine for advanced and indolent systemic mastocytosis to the Sanofi portfolio

Merck’s MK-1084 shows antitumor activity in Phase 1 trial of patients with advanced colorectal cancer

Manageable safety profile and encouraging antitumor activity observed for MK-1084 in KANDLELIT-001, both as a monotherapy and in studied combinations

Merck withdraws Biologics License Application for Patritumab Deruxtecan

The decision to withdraw the BLA is based on topline overall survival (OS) results from the confirmatory HERTHENA-Lung02 Phase 3 trial where OS did not meet statistical significance

Bayer’s Sevabertinib granted FDA priority review for the treatment of patients with HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer

This is specifically for the evaluation of medicines that, if approved, would provide a significant improvement in the safety or effectiveness of the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of a serious condition

Pimicotinib demonstrates best-in-class potential with significant efficacy and clinically meaningful improvements in patients with tenosynovial giant cell tumor

MANEUVER met all five key secondary endpoints, with statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in pain, stiffness, range of motion, physical function, and decrease in tumor volume

Lupin to present Phase 1 Data on LNP7457 at ASCO Annual Meeting 2025

Astellas and Pfizer’s XTANDI shows overall survival in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer

Five-year follow-up data from the Phase 3 ARCHES trial shows XTANDI (enzalutamide) plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) reduces risk of death by 30%

Merck presents positive Phase 2 data for Enpatoran demonstrating reduction in disease activity in patients with CLE and SLE with active lupus rash

Enpatoran is a potential first-in-class oral therapy for CLE and SLE that is thought to selectively block the activation of Toll-like receptors (TLR)7 and TLR8

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals posts FY25 PAT at Rs. 915 Cr

The Board of Directors of the company recommends a final dividend of Rs. 42 per equity share for the 12 months period ended March 31, 2025

LG Chem sets sights on global market with launch of diabetes combination therapy Zemidapa

Launched in Thailand, the ASEAN hub, marking an early entry into the fast-growing combination therapy market (DPP-4 and SGLT-2 inhibitor combination) with strong potential for market leadership