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Apellis attempts to clear the air around Syfovre safety as eye drug launch gains steam

For Apellis Pharmaceuticals, the emergence of rare but serious side effects has cast a pall over the launch of the company’s geographic atrophy med Syfovre. | While touting the “strong commercial execution” of Syfovre’s launch, Apellis’ CEO Cedric Francois, M.D., Ph.D., admitted the company has become aware of several cases of retinal vasculitis tied to…

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After quitting FDA adcomm in protest of Aduhelm decision, Harvard's Aaron Kesselheim finds agency has an approval bias

The ill-fated launch of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment Aduhelm raised many questions, including this: Why did the FDA sign off on the drug after an independent advisory committee recommende | A study of FDA advisory committee meetings between 2010 and 2021 shows that the regulator leaned heavily toward approval. When a panel recommended approval, the…

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Biogen, amid layoffs, ponies up $7.3B for rare disease specialist Reata and potential blockbuster Skyclarys

On Monday during a quarterly earnings call, when Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher was asked about the company’s potential to execute M&A, he randomly offered “we’ve got, I think, about $7.3 billion | Biogen has revealed a proposal to acquire Reata Pharmaceuticals for $7.3 billion. The Texas-based rare disease specialist brings newly approved Skyclarys, the…

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