Pipeline Watch is a weekly snapshot of selected late-stage clinical trial events announced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies at medical and industry conferences, in financial and company presentations, and in company releases and statements.

As others shun anti-infectives, Evotec is consolidating its position. Through an alliance with Sanofi it is evaluating new anti-infectives in three areas, and expects soon to advance its first candidate therapeutic into the clinic.

Denmark's mid-sized biopharma, Lundbeck, has taken another potential Parkinson's disease therapeutic into early clinical studies, the third this year, and this time it's a monoclonal antibody, not a small molecule.

Pipeline Watch is a weekly snapshot of selected late-stage clinical trial events announced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies at medical and industry conferences, in financial and company presentations, and in company releases and statements.

Sales of the uterine fibroid therapy, Esmya, sharply declined during the first half of 2018 at Hungary's specialty pharmaceuticals company, but an EU review of a potential association between the drug and liver injury has now been completed.

Otsuka's guadecitabine has missed co-primary endpoints in older treatment-naïve AML patients but it continues to be evaluated in relapsed and refractory patients, in a therapeutic area undergoing considerable innovation.