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Gilead Sciences has struck accords…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

Gilead Sciences has struck accords with Lupin, Cipla and Laurus Labs to delay the entry of any Biktarvy copycats in the U.S. until April 1, 2036. Gilead had previously estimated that Biktarvy’s U.S. market exclusivity

Even as President Donald Trump…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

Even as President Donald Trump directed the FDA in early September to begin cracking down on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, spending on TV drug ads still ratcheted up compared to the preceding few months.

A California judge has ruled that…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

A California judge has ruled that Biogen owes Roche $124 million in royalties for its use of intellectual property developed more than 40 years ago by the Swiss company’s subsidiary Genentech that covered a process

Amgen has joined the wave of major…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

Amgen has joined the wave of major drugmakers setting up direct-to-consumer programs amid President Donald Trump’s call for more DTC options to lower U.S. drug prices.

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Datroway has become the first cancer drug to show an overall survival benefit against chemotherapy for certain patients with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. In a phase 3 trial,

Myeloid Therapeutics’ name no…

October 6th, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

Myeloid Therapeutics’ name no longer fits its pipeline. Having expanded beyond the eponymous myeloid cells, the biotech has rebranded as Create Medicines and committed to an R&D strategy that spans in vivo multi-immune programming.

The FDA unveiled a new pilot…

October 3rd, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

The FDA unveiled a new pilot program that aims to speed up review times for generic drugmakers who test and manufacture their products in the U.S. Separately, the agency met with industry stakeholders this week

In a letter inked to the U.K.’s…

October 3rd, 2025|Fierce Pharma|

In a letter inked to the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, three advocacy organizations called the recent string of Big Pharma companies pulling their U.K. investments a coordinated scheme for "anti-competitive purposes."