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Opinion: STAT+: 3 keys to successful biopharma-academia drug development collaborations

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Academia can be an excellent source of novel drug targets and new technologies that can enhance medicinal discovery. Indeed, academic inventors or founders contributed to more than one-quarter of all medicines approved from 2001 through 2019. Yet many sponsored research collaborations that hope to tap into academia fail.

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OSR Holdings, SillaJen sign MoU to pursue drug development

Pharmaceutical Business Review

The collaboration will explore various avenues to enhance the current platform technologies and introduce new drug candidates. OSR Holdings, which was established in 2019 in South Korea, operates on a “hub-and-spoke” business model, which is claimed to have gained prominence in the biopharma industry over the past decade.

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Accelerating drug development

European Pharmaceutical Review

Small companies will need to either defer development or find a partner willing to fund the confirmatory Phase III programme. 5 Psychedelic research: evaluating the fast-evolving regulatory roadmap Experience of accelerated drug development The other impediment to accelerated development is an increased focus on “long-term patient outcomes”.

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Engaging change: Connecting patients and regulators can move the dial on drug development

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Regulators are increasingly asking drug developers to include the patient voice in submissions, but the best way to go about this is less clear-cut. In the United States, learning how to navigate forums such as the FDA’s listening sessions and patient-focused drug development (PFDD) meetings could be the key to “truly moving the dial”.

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Opinion: Is the golden age of biotech stocks over?

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The Food and Drug Administration approved 378 new drugs between 2010 and 2019, a big chunk of which were cancer medicines. Biotechnology companies played a big role in developing many of these new treatments, and their successes could partly be seen in the stock market, where biotech stocks soared.

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STAT+: Just how much money do drugmakers gain from patent extensions?

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Extending patent protection doesn’t just stretch a drug’s profits — in some cases, doing so can lead to its most significant revenue period, according to a recent analysis published by the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, or I-MAK, a nonprofit advocating for drug pricing reforms.

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Switzerland’s Synendos raises CHF 20m for CNS drug development

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The company was founded as a spin-off of the University of Bern and Swiss research institute NCCR TransCure in April 2019, and is focused on the development of a new class of drugs that work on endocannabinoids, a type of neurotransmitter that bind to the receptors in the brain targeted by cannabinoid compounds. “In