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Lotte Knudsen, who pushed Novo Nordisk into the Ozempic era, wins STAT Innovation award

STAT

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Back in the 1990s, scientist Lotte Bjerre Knudsen was tasked with revitalizing a floundering program at Novo Nordisk that had been trying to harness the newly-discovered GLP-1 hormone into viable diabetes drug candidates. At the time, many of Knudsen’s bosses had already lost hope for the program.

Diabetes

STAT turns 8: A letter from the executive editor

STAT

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today STAT turns 8. Murrow awards. Today I have a more pointed appeal: for you to buy a STAT+ subscription. Or I express my pride over our staff being named Pulitzer or Emmy finalists, and our consecutive Polk and Edward R. Read the rest…

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STAT+: How a cash-prize system that phases out patents may lower drug prices

STAT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

moved a step closer to an idea he has championed for some time — awarding prizes, instead of patents, for inventing medicines. government would finance more drug research and award cash prizes to companies when they invent drugs or hit milestones. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… T wo months ago, Sen.

Drug Pricing

Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Plus, preventing public health’s wiliest virus

STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And is the oft-criticized institution that awards the Nobel Prize each year showing signs of evolution? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. Will we ever get an HIV vaccine?

Vaccines

STAT+: Patent thickets and terminal disclaimers: How pharma blocks biosimilars from the marketplace

STAT

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By doing so, a drugmaker can circumvent prohibitions on awarding more than one patent for an invention. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… As a result, a drug company can quickly add a number of patents that can be used to protect its medicines from would-be rivals.

Perfection is too high a bar for CRISPR treatments, says STAT Biomedical Innovation Award winner David Liu

STAT

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But he didn’t expect her response would be both profound and incisive: “I explained to her it’s like a pair of scissors that cuts DNA, except, crucially it can be programmed,” he said Tuesday during the 2022 STAT Summit in Boston. “And she said, ‘Well, how do you fix DNA by cutting it?’”

STAT+: Roivant’s CEO is a star, but even a blockbuster deal can’t escape biotech’s black hole

STAT

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s a subjective award, but deal-making acumen, management skills, and delivering shareholder value are important measuring sticks. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… Gline created $5 billion from $50 million — in less than one year. Regular readers know that every December, I choose a best biopharma CEO.

STAT+: Northeastern among sites chosen by CDC to establish ‘National Weather Service’ for infectious disease

STAT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The university announced Tuesday the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded it $17.5 ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… Northeastern University has been selected for a leading role in a new national network formed to better forecast the spread of a future pandemic.

STAT+: ‘Learning each other’s language’: FDA, patent office seek to work together to lower drug prices

STAT

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not long after the patent was awarded, the company leveraged federally funded research and began investigating different forms of the compound, called Revlimid. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… One expires next year and the other in 2027, well beyond the original patent expiration date.

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STAT+: Gilead wins a key battle with the CDC over patents for its Truvada HIV pill

STAT

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At issue was the contention that the agency failed to notify Gilead of patents that were later sought and awarded on the research that led to Truvada. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

STAT+: The Supreme Court will review a contentious Amgen patent case, but not one involving Bristol. Why?

STAT

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

billion award it won in a contentious patent fight with a Gilead Sciences subsidiary over the lucrative market for gene therapies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… In a surprising move, the Supreme Court rejected a bid by a Bristol Myers Squibb unit to reinstate a $1.2

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STAT+: Ahead of genome summit in London, questions linger about CRISPR baby scandal

STAT

MARCH 3, 2023

That technology, which enables scientists to easily excise, alter, or replace specific sections of DNA, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… Next week, hundreds of scientists from around the world will convene in London for an international summit on genome editing.

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer and Novo disclose upbeat data on oral weight loss drugs; PBM trade group blasts House committee over hearing

STAT

MAY 23, 2023

… Novo Nordisk disclosed that an oral version of semaglutide, the drug marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy, led to dramatic weight loss in a trial enrolling people with obesity , STAT writes. Separately, Humana asked the court to confirm the award. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… Walgreens asked a U.S.

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STAT+: Nobel Prize, in a rarity, celebrates a fruitful and durable partnership

STAT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story… We would sit together in 1997 and afterwards and talk about all the things we thought RNA could do. And that’s why we never gave up,” he said.

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STAT+: NIH halts funding for Colombian research facilities accused of abusing animals

STAT

JULY 5, 2023

PETA demanded the NIH cancel grants awarded to the facilities. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Vaccines

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sanders wants to replace drug patents with prizes for innovation; FDA approves an anthrax vaccine

STAT

JULY 21, 2023

will finally get a study of his proposal to do away with drug patents and other intellectual property protections in favor of rewarding inventions with prize money , STAT writes. and around the world to obtain needed medicines the next time they visit a hospital, STAT explains. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Rise in cancer among younger people worries and puzzles doctors

STAT

JULY 24, 2023

The National Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK have listed early-onset cancer as one of the “ grand challenges ” for researchers and will award $25 million next year to a winning team. ” This story first appeared in STAT’s sister publication, the Boston Globe.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. Supreme Court asks solicitor general for views on ‘skinny label’ case; Express Scripts and Kroger are mired in dispute

STAT

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supreme Court asked the Biden administration for an opinion on whether it should hear a challenge by Teva Pharmaceuticals to a $235 million award to GlaxoSmithKline in a patent dispute over generic heart medication , Reuters notes. Teva appealed a lower court ruling that reinstated the jury award for GSK.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Nobel awarded for novel chemistry used in drug development; Biden will nominate surgeon general for WHO post

STAT

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” methods that have been applied in drug development and studying disease, STAT writes. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Drug Development

Omnichannel Benchmarking: a new era of HCP engagement

pharmaphorum

APRIL 27, 2022

.” Using insight from key industry experts across the industry, CSL settled on seven core benchmarking metrics: activity by channel, channel coverage, web traffic, coverage consistency, email stats, activity by type, and consent rates. CSL specialises in business intelligence and data management solutions for the healthcare sector.

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Hashimoto’s and Graves’ Remission after Helicobacter Pylori Eradication

The Thyroid Pharmacist

AUGUST 19, 2022

Marshall and Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine (23 years later), and slowly, physicians began to test for H. pylori STAT!). This year’s Nobel Prize to gastroenterology: Robin Warren and Barry Marshall awarded for their discovery of Helicobacter pylori as pathogen in the gastrointestinal tract.

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Lotte Knudsen, who pushed Novo Nordisk into the Ozempic era, wins STAT Innovation award

STAT turns 8: A letter from the executive editor

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STAT+: How a cash-prize system that phases out patents may lower drug prices

Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Plus, preventing public health’s wiliest virus

STAT+: Patent thickets and terminal disclaimers: How pharma blocks biosimilars from the marketplace

Perfection is too high a bar for CRISPR treatments, says STAT Biomedical Innovation Award winner David Liu

STAT+: Roivant’s CEO is a star, but even a blockbuster deal can’t escape biotech’s black hole

STAT+: Northeastern among sites chosen by CDC to establish ‘National Weather Service’ for infectious disease

STAT+: ‘Learning each other’s language’: FDA, patent office seek to work together to lower drug prices

STAT+: Gilead wins a key battle with the CDC over patents for its Truvada HIV pill

STAT+: The Supreme Court will review a contentious Amgen patent case, but not one involving Bristol. Why?

STAT+: Ahead of genome summit in London, questions linger about CRISPR baby scandal

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer and Novo disclose upbeat data on oral weight loss drugs; PBM trade group blasts House committee over hearing

STAT+: Nobel Prize, in a rarity, celebrates a fruitful and durable partnership

STAT+: NIH halts funding for Colombian research facilities accused of abusing animals

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sanders wants to replace drug patents with prizes for innovation; FDA approves an anthrax vaccine

STAT+: Rise in cancer among younger people worries and puzzles doctors

STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. Supreme Court asks solicitor general for views on ‘skinny label’ case; Express Scripts and Kroger are mired in dispute

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Nobel awarded for novel chemistry used in drug development; Biden will nominate surgeon general for WHO post

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