The market for new company creation in the biopharma sector remains healthy and poised to continue fostering the establishment of start-ups, based on a new In Vivo study of the strong initial investments that pharma and biotech companies receive.

The European Medicines Agency has delivered its verdict on the latest medicines it believes should be approved for marketing in the EU. By contrast, it has given the thumbs down to one biosimilar anticancer drug and its duplicate.

PTC CEO Stuart Peltz tells Scrip that cost watchdogs are likely to look favorably on the firm’s transformational gene therapy for a distressing rare brain disorder in children who could not even lift their heads before treatment.

The European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee, the CHMP, is expected to decide whether 11 drugs should be recommended for marketing approval during its latest monthly meeting, which started today.