BioSpace News Archive

Mergers and acquisitions are not just for Big Pharma. A new report from Leerink Partners takes a stab at identifying the small- to mid-cap pharmas best prepared to bolster their pipelines with a buyout.

Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson are joining fellow Big Pharma peers in upping their investment in AI, with Lilly looking to create the industry’s ‘most powerful supercomputer’ and J&J building a virtual operating room.

The reprioritization initiative extends Aldeyra’s cash runway into the second half of 2027.

Despite the rejection, analysts saw Regeneron’s use of an alternate filler for Eylea HD as a positive development, with BMO Capital Markets noting that this could signal the end of manufacturing troubles for the franchise.

Shingrix sales in the U.S. took a 15% dive in the third quarter. GSK is now the second Big Pharma to report declining vaccine sales, after Sanofi reported a similar decline last week.

Already sky high after the success of its limb-girdle muscular dystrophy therapy, reported on Monday, BridgeBio’s shares rose nearly 8% more as encaleret balanced calcium levels in patients with a genetic thyroid disorder.

Late-breaking Phase III data show ianalumab, Novartis’ dual-targeted antibody, reduced disease activity and patient burden in Sjögren’s disease, the pharma reported at the American College of Rheumatology Convergence congress on Wednesday.

Genentech is letting go of 118 employees in South San Francisco. The news comes about two months after the biotech ended a partnership with Adaptive Biotechnologies.

As third-quarter earnings continue to roll out, Novartis makes headlines with the second biggest acquisition of the year; Novartis’ CEO also downplayed the impact of Big Pharma pricing deals with the Trump administration; Regeneron continued the trend of dropping cell therapy assets; BioSpace takes a look at how the FDA is functioning mid-shutdown.

Generic versions of biologic drugs could hit the market without human trials and allow the market forces to bring down costs, HHS leaders said while announcing new draft guidance.