Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Business & Industry
- Novartis acquires Arctos Medical, expanding optogenetics portfolio to bring gene therapies to patients with severe vision loss
- Pfizer and BioNTech announce positive topline results from pivotal trial of COVID-19 vaccine in children 5 to 11 years
- University of Oxford and Oracle Cloud System helping researchers identify COVID-19 variants faster
- Roche opens access to pathology imaging tools to improve patient care
- Pfizer and BioNTech submit a variation to EMA with the data in support of a booster dose of COMIRNATY®
Research & Development
- Therapy using dual immune system cells effectively controls neuroblastoma
- COVID-19 nasal vaccine candidate effective at preventing disease transmission
- How a plant virus could protect and save your lungs from metastatic cancer
- Scientific evidence to date on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy does not support boosters for general population
- NIH scientists build a cellular blueprint of multiple sclerosis lesions
- First-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine to treat opioid use disorders enrolls first patients
- No serious health effects linked to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
Conferences & Events
- Novartis, Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim to showcase their commitment to a reimagined pharma industry
- Scientists urge for investment now in highly potent vaccines to prevent the next pandemic
- CPhI Worldwide to return in 2021
- Reuters Events' Cell & Gene Therapy USA
- Total health: Build a better healthcare system
- Don't fall for the 'next best action' trap
- Locking down shape-shifting spike protein aids development of COVID-19 vaccine
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA authorizes software that can help identify prostate cancer
- FDA advances data, IT modernization efforts with new office of digital transformation
- ECDC and EMA highlight considerations for additional and booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines
- FDA approves first COVID-19 vaccine
- FDA approves new treatment for Pompe disease