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Maven Clinic employees now have access to WellTheory's autoimmune disease care platform

Fierce Healthcare

WellTheory, a virtual care platform focused on autoimmune diseases, announced its first employer partnership with Maven Clinic. Maven employees now have free access to WellTheory’s platform that offers evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle coaching to reduce autoimmune symptoms.

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Despite positive trial, Roche says Enspryng fell short of expectations in myasthenia gravis

Fierce Pharma

Drug developers often try to spot tidbits of positive information from a failed clinical trial. Drug developers often try to spot tidbits of positive information from a failed clinical trial. But Roche is doing the opposite for its positive Enspryng study in the competitive autoimmune disorder of myasthenia gravis.

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With Vyvgart 'firing' in myasthenia gravis, argenx lays launch plans for next potential autoimmune approval: CEO

Fierce Pharma

Despite a pair of clinical misfires in 2023, argenx has stuck by the thesis that its star drug Vyvgart, also known as efgartigimod, could tackle a wide array of autoimmune diseases linked to immuno | Argenx is bolstering its case for Vyvgart’s CIDP potential and preparing for a possible launch later this year—all while the company continues to prove (..)

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STAT+: Vertex to buy Alpine Immune Sciences for $4.9 billion

STAT

The acquisition gives Vertex a drug called povetacicept, which has shown promise in treating IgA nephropathy (IgAN), an autoimmune disorder of the kidney that can lead to end-stage renal disease and affects 130,000 people in the U.S. The drug will enter Phase 3 clinical development in the second half of the year.

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STAT+: Why the world’s most expensive drug might not be all that overpriced

STAT

The staff of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, or ICER, are known as the nerds of the drug industry: bespectacled killjoys who emerge a few times a year to scold drugmakers for pricing their latest cancer or MS advance far beyond reason. But last year, its staff sat down and concluded a forthcoming treatment was worth up to $3.9

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BCMA CAR T therapy facilitates potential autoimmune breakthrough

European Pharmaceutical Review

Positive results from the first global study for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-antologous T cell (BCMA CAR T) injection (Equecabtagene Autoleucel) in immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), suggest that the cell therapy could provide a new therapeutic option for antibody-mediated autoimmune disorders.

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IGM jettisons workforce and blood cancer programme to refocus pipeline

Pharmaceutical Technology

IGM will lay off 22% of its staff and suspend four clinical activities to advance autoimmune diseases and colorectal cancer programmes.

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