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Arena Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim jointly patent GPR52 agonists

April 12, 2023
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG have jointly patented 3-phenoxyazetidin-1-yl-heteroaryl pyrrolidine derivative G protein-coupled receptor GPR52 agonists.
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Board quotas struck down in California

May 23, 2022
By Mari Serebrov
Although it was recently overturned in a legal challenge, a short-lived California state law mandating gender quotas for corporate boards may have made a few drug and device companies based in the state think twice about the makeup of their boards.
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Pfizer’s $6.7B Arena buy looks sound after positive phase III readout from etrasimod

March 23, 2022
By Richard Staines
One of Pfizer Inc.’s last decisions of 2021 was to shell out $6.7 billion for San Diego’s Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., a deal centered around the pipeline inflammatory disease pill etrasimod. A potential successor to Xeljanz (tofacitinib), the price New York-based Pfizer paid suggests blockbuster potential for etrasimod. Phase III results announced March 23 suggest Pfizer’s big acquisition, the fifth largest in biopharma in 2021, was money well spent.
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Pfizer buys Arena for $6.7B, adding Xeljanz successor to pipeline

Dec. 13, 2021
By Richard Staines
Pfizer Inc. is to buy Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $6.7 billion, adding a potential follow-up to inflammatory diseases pill Xeljanz (tofacitinib) to its pipeline plus several other potential medicines targeting gastroenterology, dermatology and cardiology.
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Cardio’s working out as players flex in heart failure

July 8, 2021
By Randy Osborne
Recent findings with the sodium glucose transporter-2 inhibitor Jardiance (empagliflozin) from Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH and Eli Lilly and Co. drew more attention to the cardiovascular space.
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Unequal opportunities in EoE as multiple players vie for position

June 11, 2021
By Randy Osborne
Data from a prospective study rolled out by Allakos Inc. last month at the Digestive Disease Week meeting made the case for broader prevalence than previously believed of eosinophilic gastritis and/or eosinophilic duodenitis – and the Redwood City, Calif.-based firm may have just the drug for the conditions in lirentelimab (AK-002).
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Arena sinks on phase II but analysts deem further AD push not ill-Advised

Nov. 10, 2020
By Randy Osborne
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. CEO Amit Munshi said “a cluster of patients in a single clinical site” skewed results of the phase IIb study testing etrasimod in atopic dermatitis (AD), and caused the selective S1P modulator to miss its primary endpoint.
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With a $56M boost, Longboard leaps from Arena

Oct. 28, 2020
By Lee Landenberger
Longboard Pharmaceuticals Inc. is spinning out from Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., courtesy of a $56 million financing to help develop CNS-targeted therapies. On the table to be developed are compounds discovered using Arena’s G protein-coupled receptor research engine.
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Eisai may be the biggest loser, but it’s not the only loser with Belviq withdrawal

Feb. 19, 2020
By Mari Serebrov
A lot of development dollars are shed when the FDA withdraws approval or requests that a drug be withdrawn from the market because new potential risks have come to light. And it’s not just the brand company that feels the loss.
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