Nuplazid is a decent earner for the US biotech in psychosis caused by Parkinson’s disease but following previous failures in Alzheimer's and dementia, the drug has now proved a dud for treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Disappointed: CEO Steve Davis • Source: Acadia
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s hopes of moving its Parkinson's disease psychosis drug Nuplazid into schizophrenia have been crushed following a late-stage failure in the notoriously hard-to-treat indication.
Shares in the San Diego-based firm sank 15% in after-hours trading on 11 March on the release of top-line results...
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Amgen’s Imdelltra for small-cell lung cancer is one of two bispecific T-cell engagers approved for solid tumors, but data at the WCLC meeting show other DLL3-targeting BiTEs may be on the way.
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Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Interim results from the Phase III REMARK study presented at WCLC showed the Chinese company’s second-generation ALK/ROS1 inhibitor met its primary endpoint as a first-line therapy in ALK-positive advanced NSCLC.