AstraZeneca donerar nio miljoner ansiktsmasker för att stödja sjukvårdspersonal runt om i världen som hanterar den globala COVID-19 pandemin. Italien kommer få de första sändningarna av andningsmasker redan under denna vecka, och leverans till fler länder följer.
AstraZeneca today announced that Lynparza (olaparib) has been granted orphan drug designation (ODD) in Japan for the maintenance treatment of germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm) curatively unresectable pancreatic cancer. Lynparza is co-developed and co-commercialised with MSD Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US (MSD: known as Merck & Co., Inc. inside the US and Canada)
High-level results from the final analysis of the Phase III CASPIAN trial showed AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) in combination with a choice of standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapies confirmed a sustained, clinically meaningful overall survival (OS) benefit for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) treated in the 1st-line setting.
The Phase III DANUBE trial for Imfinzi (durvalumab) and Imfinzi plus tremelimumab in unresectable, Stage IV (metastatic) bladder cancer did not meet the primary endpoints of improving overall survival (OS) versus standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapy for Imfinzi monotherapy in patients whose tumour cells and/or tumour-infiltrating immune cells express high levels (≥25%) of PD-L1, or for Imfinzi
AstraZeneca today announced that it has completed the previously communicated agreement with Atnahs Pharma (Atnahs) to divest its global commercial rights to Inderal (propranolol), Tenormin (atenolol), Tenoretic (atenolol, chlorthalidone fixed-dose combination), Zestril (lisinopril) and Zestoretic (lisinopril, hydrochlorothiazide fixed-dose combination).
AstraZeneca has agreed to sublicense its global rights to Movantik (naloxegol), excluding Europe, Canada and Israel, to RedHill Biopharma (RedHill). Movantik is a peripherally acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist (PAMORA) indicated for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC).
AstraZeneca meddelar idag att man ingått ett nytt samarbete med IBM Sverige genom BioVentureHub. Små och medelstora företag (SME) som är anslutna till IBM Sweden eller AstraZenecas BioVentureHub erbjuds nu tillgång till varandras öppna plattform för innovation.
Ett år präglat av betydande innovation för patienter; den strategiska omvandlingen accelererar
AstraZeneca har levererat ett år med stark tillväxt, tack vare lanseringen av nya läkemedel, ytterligare framsteg i forskningsportföljen och med ett stort antal godkännanden och övergripande resultat. Dessa trender kommer att fortsätta under 2020, tillsammans med vinsttillväxt och tillväxt i likvida
AstraZeneca meddelar i dag att man har anställt Anna-Lena Engwall som chef för AstraZenecas nordisk-baltiska marknadsbolag, hon tillträder tjänsten den 6 februari 2020.
High-level results from the positive registrational Phase II trial DESTINY-Gastric01 showed AstraZeneca’s and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Daiichi Sankyo)’s Enhertu, achieved a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in objective response rate and overall survival in patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer.....
High-level results from the Phase III THALES trial showed AstraZeneca’s Brilinta (ticagrelor) 90mg used twice daily and taken with aspirin for 30 days, reached a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in the risk of the primary composite endpoint of stroke and death, compared to aspirin alone.
AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the global commercial rights to Inderal (propranolol), Tenormin (atenolol), Tenoretic (atenolol, chlorthalidone fixed-dose combination), Zestril (lisinopril) and Zestoretic (lisinopril, hydrochlorothiazide fixed-dose combination) to Atnahs Pharma (Atnahs)
AstraZeneca will recover the global rights to brazikumab (formerly MEDI2070), a monoclonal antibody targeting IL23, from Allergan. Brazikumab is currently in a Phase IIb/III programme in Crohn’s disease (CD) and a Phase IIb trial in ulcerative colitis (UC).
AstraZeneca announced today that it will support UNICEF with a $12.5 million grant to support programming which will reach more than five million young people, train 1,000 youth advocates, and positively shape public policy around the world, over the next six years.
AstraZeneca presenterade idag ett ambitiöst program för att eliminera koldioxidutsläppen från den globala verksamheten till 2025 och säkerställa att hela värdekedjan är koldioxidnegativ till 2030. Detta innebär att AstraZenecas planer att minska utsläpp av växthusgaser tidigareläggs med mer än ett decennium.
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) and tremelimumab,an anti-CTLA4 antibody and potential new medicine, have both been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) in the US for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer.
AstraZeneca and MSD today announced that a supplemental New Drug Application for Lynparza has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic homologous recombination repair gene mutations, who have progressed following prior treatment with a new hormonal agent.
AstraZeneca and MSD Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US today announced that a supplemental New Drug Application for Lynparza (olaparib) in combination with bevacizumab has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for the maintenance treatment of patients with advanced ovarian cancer who are in complete or partial response to 1st-line platinum-based chemotherapy with bevacizumab.
Following the recommendation from an independent Data Monitoring Committee, AstraZeneca has decided to close the Phase III STRENGTH trial for Epanova (omega-3 carboxylic acids) due to its low likelihood of demonstrating a benefit to patients with mixed dyslipidaemia (MDL) who are at increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease.
AstraZeneca today announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) and granted Priority Review for Farxiga (dapagliflozin) to reduce the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or the worsening of heart failure (HF) in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) with and without type-2 diabetes (T2D).