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AbbVie and Novartis strike billion-dollar pacts while attendees at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference await that one big M&A deal and Merck teases limitless buying capacity; Eli Lilly readies for potential orforglipron launch while Novo Nordisk laments compounders; the IPO window cracks open; and the FDA concludes that GLP-1s do not pose a suicide risk.
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Former European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan and former US Senator Richard Burr, speaking on a panel at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, pushed to see a larger picture beyond the Trump administration’s year of chaos and confusion.
Heightened diligence standards and longer decision timelines for early-stage startups slowed venture activity last year, J.P. Morgan found in a report published ahead of the bank’s annual healthcare conference in San Francisco.
After years stuck in the “doldrums,” the biopharma sector is in a “very good place” heading into the new year, analysts told BioSpace, with both rare and chronic diseases headlining investor and R&D interest as JPM26 kicks off.
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The British pharma expects “meaningful” sales and earnings growth in 2024 and is upgrading its growth outlooks for 2026 and 2031, according to GSK CEO Emma Walmsley.
The Swiss pharma on Thursday projected mid-single-digit sales growth for 2024, culling eight assets and looking to acquisitions and collaborations for de-risked assets with “significant potential.”
Despite strong sales of its blockbuster drug Dupixent, Sanofi on Thursday reported that its fourth-quarter 2023 operating income dropped 5% due to a weaker U.S. dollar, high expenses and generic competition.
Buoyed by its strong performance outside of the U.S. market, Daiichi Sankyo on Wednesday again raised its sales expectations for the blockbuster antibody-drug conjugate.
Driven by soaring demand for its diabetes and weight loss drugs, Novo Nordisk on Wednesday reported better-than-expected full-year 2023 earnings with a 31% sales increase.
The investment in Illinois-based Cour Pharmaceuticals had participation from Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiatives and Roche Ventures.
The Swiss pharma’s fourth-quarter sales fell short of analysts’ estimates on Wednesday, as the company said it dropped a late-stage blood cancer hopeful after failing a Phase III study.
After Tamar Bresge was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at age 15, her entrepreneurial father made it his mission to help find a cure.
Excluding its COVID-19-products Comirnaty and Paxlovid, Pfizer’s revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 grew 8%. The company projects full-year revenue in 2024 to remain about flat.
Gilead Sciences and Arcus Biosciences have amended their collaboration agreement in an effort to accelerate an anti-TIGIT program, the companies announced Monday.