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I want to give read­ers a quick up­date on the most im­por­tant part of our busi­ness mod­el — pre­mi­um sub­scrip­tions. We have some cru­cial fi­nan­cial goals we hope to achieve by the end of the year, and the team here in Lawrence is ready to ship some swag to kick off this lim­it­ed De­cem­ber pro­mo­tion.

We of­fer two pre­mi­um plans — En­ter­prise for com­pa­nies ($1,000/year, un­lim­it­ed peo­ple), and In­sid­er for in­di­vid­u­als ($200/year). This month of De­cem­ber will be the last chance to en­roll at the orig­i­nal rates — which have re­mained flat since we launched them in 2017.

Both plans un­lock ac­cess to our en­tire pre­mi­um con­tent li­brary like 100 top VCs in bio­phar­ma, Re­al World End­points: the brave new world com­ing in build­ing fran­chise ther­a­pies, and the top 20 pre­clin­i­cal biotech deals, and much more. You get ac­cess to tools like down­load­ing ar­ti­cles to PDF, our VIP sup­port team, and most of all, you’re di­rect­ly fund­ing the fu­ture de­vel­op­ment of End­points. These plans have been the rea­son we’ve been able to make new ed­i­to­r­i­al hires, with more to come. And we’re adding new ben­e­fits next year: paid sub­scribers will have ex­clu­sive ac­cess to watch our an­nu­al event at JP Mor­gan live at no ad­di­tion­al cost.

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By up­grad­ing, you’re di­rect­ly sup­port­ing in­de­pen­dent bio­phar­ma re­port­ing, and we’re look­ing for ways big and small to help pro­mote that among our read­ers. And that’s where the swag comes in.

The next 100 In­sid­er ac­counts to sign-up will re­ceive these vinyl stick­ers — 4 in a se­ries — that our stu­dio cre­at­ed.

And the next new 25 En­ter­prise sub­scribers will get stick­ers plus one of these amaz­ing­ly com­fort­able hood­ies. (Our sup­port team will reach out to get your pre­ferred size!)

Fi­nal­ly, the stu­dio cre­at­ed 100 lim­it­ed edi­tion framed cer­tifi­cates in hon­or of the very first batch of com­pa­nies who signed up for the En­ter­prise plan back when we launched it in the sum­mer of 2017. You can see a copy of what they look like at the top of this post.

These sub­scrip­tion plans helped End­points scale up to where we are to­day: serv­ing 400,000 unique read­ers per month on the web and near­ly 70,000 bio­phar­ma pros dai­ly by email, sup­port­ed by a glob­al­ly dis­trib­uted work­force, 15-strong and grow­ing, head­quar­tered in Lawrence, Kansas.

And we have big plans for 2020 — new cov­er­age ar­eas, prod­ucts, and deep­er re­port­ing on the peo­ple and trends that shape the bio­phar­ma world. The best way to help us get there is up­grad­ing to In­sid­er or En­ter­prise.

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Has the mo­ment fi­nal­ly ar­rived for val­ue-based health­care?

RBC Capital Markets’ Healthcare Technology Analyst, Sean Dodge, spotlights a new breed of tech-enabled providers who are rapidly transforming the way clinicians deliver healthcare, and explores the key question: can this accelerating revolution overturn the US healthcare system?

Key points

Tech-enabled healthcare providers are poised to help the US transition to value, not volume, as the basis for reward.
The move to value-based care has policy momentum, but is risky and complex for clinicians.
Outsourced tech specialists are emerging to provide the required expertise, while healthcare and tech are also converging through M&A.
Value-based care remains in its early stages, but the transition is accelerating and represents a huge addressable market.

FDA ad­vi­sors unan­i­mous­ly rec­om­mend ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval for Bio­gen's ALS drug

A panel of outside advisors to the FDA unanimously recommended that the agency grant accelerated approval to Biogen’s ALS drug tofersen despite the drug failing the primary goal of its Phase III study, an endorsement that could pave a path forward for the treatment.

By a 9-0 vote, members of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee said there was sufficient evidence that tofersen’s effect on a certain protein associated with ALS is reasonably likely to predict a benefit for patients. But panelists stopped short of advocating for a full approval, voting 3-5 against (with one abstention) and largely citing the failed pivotal study.

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Alaa Halawa, executive director at Mubadala’s US venture group

The ven­ture crew at Mubadala are up­ping their biotech cre­ation game, tak­ing care­ful aim at a new fron­tier in drug de­vel­op­ment

It started with a cup of coffee and a slow burning desire to go early and long in the biotech creation business.

Wrapping up a 15-year discovery stint at Genentech back in the summer of 2021, Rami Hannoush was treated to a caffeine-fueled review of the latest work UCSF’s Jim Wells had been doing on protein degradation — one of the hottest fields in drug development.

“Jim and I have known each other for the past 15 years through Genentech collaborations. We met over coffee, and he was telling me about this concept of the company that he was thinking of,” says Hannoush. “And I got immediately intrigued by it because I knew that this could open up a big space in terms of adding a new modality in drug discovery that is desperately needed in pharma.”

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Sanofi, Re­gen­eron boast PhI­II win with Dupix­ent in COPD, clear­ing first bar for ex­pan­sion

Dupixent, the blockbuster anti-inflammatory drug from Sanofi and Regeneron, has cleared a high-stakes Phase III study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the companies announced Thursday morning.

If they hold up in a second, identical trial, the data pave the way for Dupixent to become the first biologic to treat patients whose COPD remains uncontrolled despite being on maximal standard-of-care inhaled therapy — the patient population studied in the pivotal program. The companies had spotlighted this as a key readout as they look to expand the Dupixent franchise and explore its full potential.

Chat­G­PT with phar­ma da­ta de­buts for med­ical meet­ings, be­gin­ning with AACR

What do you get when you combine ChatGPT generative AI technology with specific pharma and clinical datasets? A time-saving tool that can answer questions about medical conference abstracts and clinical findings in seconds in one new application from ZoomRx called FermaGPT.

ZoomRx is debuting a public version of its generative AI product specifically for medical conferences beginning this week for the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting that runs April 14-19.

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Genen­tech to stop com­mer­cial man­u­fac­tur­ing at Cal­i­for­nia head­quar­ters

Genentech is halting commercial manufacturing at its California headquarters — and laying off several hundred employees.

The move is the result of a decision Genentech made in 2007 to relocate manufacturing operations from its South San Francisco headquarters location to other facilities or move the work to CDMOs, said Andi Goddard, Genentech’s SVP of quality and compliance for pharmaceutical technical operations, in an interview with Endpoints News. Genentech has made changes in capabilities and invested more in technology, so it doesn’t need as many large-scale manufacturing facilities as it did in the past, she said.

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In­cyte wins ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval for PD-1 in rare skin can­cer

Incyte touted an accelerated approval for its PD-1 retifanlimab in a rare skin cancer on Wednesday, roughly a year and a half after the drug suffered a rejection in squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal (SCAC).

Retifanlimab, marketed as Zynyz, was approved for metastatic or recurrent locally advanced Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a fast-growing skin cancer typically characterized by a single, painless nodule. It’s roughly 40 times rarer than melanoma, according to the nonprofit Skin Cancer Foundation — but incidence is growing, particularly among older adults, Incyte said in its announcement.

A new study finds that many patient influencers are sharing prescription drug experiences along with health information.

So­cial me­dia pa­tient in­flu­encers ‘danc­ing in the gray’ of phar­ma mar­ket­ing, more clar­i­ty need­ed, re­searcher says

It’s no surprise that patient influencers are talking about their health conditions on social media. However, what’s less clear is what role pharma companies are playing, how big the patient influencer industry is, and just how is information about prescription drugs from influencers relayed — and received — on social media.

While University of Colorado associate professor Erin Willis can’t answer all those questions, she’s been researching the issue for several years and recently published new research digging into the communication styles, strategies and thinking of patient influencers, many of whom partner with pharma companies.

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Vas Narasimhan, Novartis CEO (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

No­var­tis pulls the plug on UK-based car­dio­vas­cu­lar study

Novartis is calling off a UK-based trial for Leqvio in the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with high cholesterol, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

The Swiss pharma giant made the decision after “careful evaluation,” a spokesperson told Endpoints News via email. The trial, dubbed ORION-17, was planned in partnership with England’s National Health Service (NHS) and was part of the company’s strategy to establish Leqvio as a standard of care in cardiovascular disease management.