AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US today announced that they were granted orphan drug designation (ODD) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Lynparza (olaparib) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

AstraZeneca and MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, will present 54 abstracts, including eight oral presentations and three late breakers, to the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO 2018) Congress in Munich, Germany, 19-23 October.

AstraZeneca meddelar i dag att man har anställt Christina Malmberg Hägerstrand i en ny roll som presschef för bolaget i Norden och Baltikum. Hon börjar den 7 januari 2019 och kommer rapportera till Kommunikationsdirektör Jacob Lund.

Results from the Phase III PACIFIC trial were published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing Imfinzi (durvalumab) significantly improved OS, the second primary endpoint of the trial, compared to standard of care regardless of PD-L1 expression, reducing the risk of death by 32% (HR 0.68, 99.73% CI 0.47-0.997; p=0.0025).

Elisabeth Björk, Vice President, Head of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases, at AstraZeneca said: “We are pleased with this positive recommendation for Bydureon and what it means for patients with type-2 diabetes with a wide range of cardiovascular risk. Our pursuit of this label is based on our strong belief in the clinical value the EXSCEL data brings to physicians and patients.”

AstraZeneca and MedImmune, today announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for Imfinzi (durvalumab) as monotherapy for the treatment of locally-advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults whose tumours express PD-L1 on ≥1% of tumour cells and whose disease has not progressed following platinum-based chemotherapy and radiation therapy (CRT).

AstraZeneca meddelade i dag positiva övergripande resultat från den kardiovaskulära fas III-studien DECLARE-TIMI 58 for Forxiga (dapagliflozin), den bredaste kardiovaskulära studien hittills för en SGLT2-hämmare.

AstraZeneca and MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, will present more than 50 abstracts from the Company’s Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism (CVRM) therapy area at the 54th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin, Germany, 1-5 October 2018.

AstraZeneca today announced results from the BORA Phase III extension trial evaluating the long-term safety and efficacy of Fasenra (benralizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma who had previously completed one of the two pivotal SIROCCO or CALIMA Phase III trials.

Data from the KRONOS trial presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2018