Flush with IPO funding, AI-focused healthcare technology group Sensyne Health will now ready additional products and find three more NHS trust partnerships. CEO Lord Drayson spoke to Scrip.

A series of setbacks for gemcabene has left the Livonia, MI-based company reeling, but management remains committed to its lead product.

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.

Top-line data for a Phase III trial of RedHill's antibiotic combination for use in Crohn's disease show the study has hit its primary endpoint, but there is still some way to go before filings can be made for the novel approach.

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.

Due to poor sales, the drug, which AstraZeneca picked up through its $1.26bn acquisition of Ardea, is now being terminated in the US. Ironwood, already in the process of splitting up, is going to focus on its core gastrointestinal franchise.

Glenmark has sealed a licensing deal for its early stage immuno-oncology asset with China’s Harbour BioMed, opening up new possibilities around collaborations between the two Asian nations. The Indian firm appears upbeat about the prospects of building further on this new linkage.

Sales of PCSK9 inhibitors have been improving, though are still low, and inclusion of lower LDL-C targets in practice guidelines coming this November would be a boost.

As drug fails in DLBCL, firm focuses on lifting partial clinical hold on other trials. A first filing in a rare sarcoma has also been pushed back.