The Latest Breaking News from GSK

GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK) has agreed to acquire Sierra Oncology Inc (NASDAQ:SRRA) for $55 per share in cash, representing an approximate total equity value of $1.9 billion (£1.5 billion). Sierra's momelotinib complements GSK's Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin), building on GSK's commercial and medical expertise in hematology.  If momelotinib is approved, GSK expects momelotinib will contribute to GSK's growing…

Germany has signed a contract with CureVac BV (NASDAQ:CVAC) and its partner GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK) for domestically produced mRNA vaccines to bolster supplies for pandemic preparedness. The five-year contract allows for the production of up to 80 million doses at short notice until 2029, CureVac said, adding that those doses could be for the remainder of…

Money includes a £2.5m Innovate UK grant to fund human clinical trials of its technology

The U.S. health regulator said GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE:GSK) and Vir Biotechnology Inc's (NASDAQ:VIR) antibody therapy was no longer authorized as a COVID-19 treatment. The decision was made as the CDC now estimates that the proportion of Covid-19 cases caused by BA.2 is above 50% nationwide. "Sotrovimab is no longer authorized to treat COVID-19 in any…

As governments prepare to live with COVID-19, some are questioning how much to rely on drugmakers to adapt vaccines to ward off future virus variants amid signs of tension between companies and regulators over the best approach, according to several sources familiar with the matter.

CureVac N.V. (NASDAQ:CVAC) dosed the first participant in a Phase 1 study of COVID-19 second-generation mRNA vaccine candidate, CV2CoV, developed with GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK).  The clinical trial is expected to provide valuable data to evaluate further the performance of CureVac’s second-generation mRNA backbone, which has the potential to be applied broadly in future vaccines against…

The European Medicines Agency has started reviewing Sanofi SA (NASDAQ:SNY) and its partner GlaxoSmithKline Plc's (NYSE:GSK) application seeking conditional authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine candidate, Vidprevtyn, was already being evaluated under a rolling review by EMA. The drugmakers had earlier said that they would seek regulatory approval for their COVID-19 vaccine to be…

The FDA has approved ViiV Healthcare's Cabenuva (cabotegravir, rilpivirine) for HIV-1 in virologically suppressed adolescents. The approval covers patients aged 12 years or older and weighing at least 35kg on a stable antiretroviral regimen, with no history of treatment failure and no known or suspected resistance to either cabotegravir or rilpivirine. The regimen…

The FDA said that the currently authorized 500mg dose of GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE:GSK) and Vir Biotechnology Inc's (NASDAQ:VIR) COVID-19 antibody therapy is unlikely to be effective against the omicron BA.2 variant. The agency updated its website to exclude sotrovimab use in geographic regions where the infection is likely caused by the omicron BA.2 variant. GSK…

Meets top leadership of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and GSK as part of his official tour to the US

LifeMine Therapeutics Inc, a drug discovery startup that uses genetically-encoded small molecules, has partnered with GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK) to discover and develop drugs from fungal genomes.  GSK will bring three targets for LifeMine to run through its proprietary drug discovery platform, which scans for fungi that could be a match to create a…