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The current state of political affairs in the U.S. does not bode well for the direction of that turn. The country is at real risk of losing its long-held lead in biotech innovation.
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The rare disease drugmaker is facing potential competitors for achondroplasia drug Voxzogo. Is a big M&A deal with two approved assets enough to maintain investor interest?
A rapturous response to data published last year for Pelage’s hair loss candidate overwhelmed the biotech. Now, the company is ready to show the world the science behind the breakthrough.
Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca are all ramping up the use of AI, but drug discovery is not the primary success story—yet.
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For the past year, Abbott Laboratories and Quest Diagnostics saw their revenue driven by COVID-19 diagnostics, but that seems to be changing as more and more vaccinated individuals are seeking medical advice for non-viral related issues.
Biotech company Slingshot Biosciences announced Thursday it had closed a $23 million Series A financing round led by Northpond Ventures.
The last several years have marked several attempts to stimulate life sciences startups to pick the Big Apple.
The life sciences is always a frenetic sector when it comes to mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPOs) and Series A announcements (not to mention B and C rounds). But during the second quarter of 2021, these companies were especially busy bees – all positive signs that the industry is still booming coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This week the pharma giant announced a second collaboration agreement with Connecticut-based Arvinas to develop and commercialize its PROTAC estrogen receptor protein degrader.
Mirimus and Biogen, AavantiBio and Aldevron, Exscientia and GT Apeiron Therapeutics announced strategic partnerships this morning.
More money means more progress for potentially life-saving therapies. Here’s a peek at some biopharma companies adding to their books this week.
Shares of Arcus Biosciences dipped sharply in post-market trading Monday after it was learned that the company’s chief medical officer was departing for a role at Gilead Sciences.
The drug is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitor, with the results presented at the virtual 11th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.
Rivus’ CMAs are designed to overcome these illnesses by activating the body’s natural process of mitochondrial uncoupling.