Amgen beats expectations in Q3 earnings report
Amgen, one of the biggest biopharmaceutical companies in the world, continued to see growth in the third quarter of 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The Thousand Oaks-based company saw total revenue of $6.4 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent from the third quarter of 2019. Earnings per share increased 5 percent to $3.43. Both Read More →
Read More →Arcutis shares up on news of public, private offerings
Arcutis Biotherapeutics saw a 15 percent rise in its share price after it said Sept. 29 that it will offer 4 million shares to the public and sell another $35 million in stock to an affiliate of one of its directors. Arcutis closed at $31.04, a gain of $4.28 after it announced the dual track Read More →
Read More →Amgen to team with Eli Lilly on COVID treatment
Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen announced another strategy to help address the coronavirus pandemic, entering into a manufacturing agreement with Eli Lilly to produce COVID-19 antibodies. Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, has been pursuing several antibody treatments for the virus, the two companies said in a Sept. 17 news release. With access to Amgen’s manufacturing Read More →
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Making an ImmPACT: New firm raises $18M to pursue T-cell therapies
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Read More →Amgen to join exclusive Dow Jones club
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Read More →Amgen teams up with competitors in COVID treatment trial
Amgen has joined two of its competitors in launching a trial for drugs to treat patients with COVID-19. Together with Chicago-based AbbVie and Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, the Thousand Oaks biotech giant said Aug. 3 it had enrolled the first patients into a clinical trial for the anti-inflammatory drugs Otezla, cenicriviroc and Firazyr. Otezla is Read More →
Read More →Amgen meets analyst estimates, but shares drop on Q2 earnings decline
Amgen’s revenues climbed 6 percent in the second quarter, to $6.2 billion, despite the COVID-19 pandemic limiting hospital and physician operations and putting a hitch in diagnosis and treatment for many patients. Amgen’s earnings, announced July 28, met average analyst estimates. However, a 17 percent overall decline in net income for the Thousand Oaks biotech Read More →
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