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PLANEGG and MUNICH, GERMANY / ACCESSWIRE / June 20, 2024 / MorphoSys AG (FSE:MOR)(NASDAQ:MOR) announces that Novartis BidCo Germany AG informed the MorphoSys AG Management Board of its intention to merge MorphoSys AG as transferring company into Novartis BidCo Germany AG. Novartis BidCo Germany AG proposed to enter negotiations with the MorphoSys AG Management Board on a merger agreement.

Pending regulatory submission, Fabhalta (iptacopan) could become the first approved therapy for C3G, addressing a significant unmet need in nephrology, according to Spherix Global Insights. Pending regulatory submission, Fabhalta (iptacopan) could become the first approved therapy for C3G, addressing a significant unmet need in nephrology, according to Spherix Global Insights.

Italy's antitrust regulator said on Thursday it had launched a probe into several pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis , for having potentially restricted competition in the sale of a drug for eye conditions.

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Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS ) Investor Event at ASCO Conference Call June 2, 2024 7:00 PM ET Company Participants Parag Mahanti - Investor Relations Shreeram Aradhye - President of Global Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer Jeff Legos - Global Head of Oncology & Hematology Drug Development Reshema Kemps-Polanco - Chief Commercial Officer of U.S. Business Rodney Gillespie - International Therapeutic Area Head, Oncology Novartis Conference Call Participants Emmanuel Papadakis - Deutsche Bank Steve Scala - TD Cowen Emily Field - Barclays Mark Purcell - Morgan Stanley Seamus Fernandez - Guggenheim Security Peter Welford - Jefferies Parag Mahanti Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us at the Novartis Investor Event at ASCO 2024.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis said patients with a type of leukemia who took its Scemblix had a significantly better response and a lower dropout rate than those who received current standard-of-care drugs in a late-stage study with details presented on Friday.

Basel, May 31, 2024 – Novartis today presents positive results from the pivotal Phase III ASC4FIRST trial as a late-breaking abstract at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. Scemblix® (asciminib) demonstrated superior major molecular response (MMR) rates at week 48 compared to investigator-selected standard-of-care (SoC) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) imatinib, nilotinib, dasatinib and bosutinib, and compared to imatinib alone in patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase (Ph+ CML-CP)1. Scemblix also showed a numerical improvement in MMR at week 48 vs. second generation (2G) TKIs (nilotinib, dasatinib and bosutinib)1. Additionally, Scemblix demonstrated a favorable safety and tolerability profile, with fewer adverse events (AEs) and treatment discontinuations vs. both imatinib and 2G TKIs1.

Basel, May 31, 2024 – Novartis today announced new data that confirm the long-term efficacy and safety of remibrutinib, a highly selective Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, in chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU)1. In the pivotal Phase III studies, REMIX-1 and REMIX-2, remibrutinib treatment showed significant symptom improvement early, which was sustained up to Week 52, in patients with CSU who remained symptomatic despite second-generation H1-antihistamine use1. These data are being presented at the 2024 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress in Valencia, Spain, May 31–June 3.