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After years of contraction, investors see biotech reentering a growth cycle driven by scientific progress, asset quality and renewed conviction in oncology, obesity and neuroscience innovation.
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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Attendance at the Biotech CEO Sisterhood’s annual photo of women leaders and allies in Union Square doubled this year. There’s still more work to do.
After winning a surprise approval for its hereditary angioedema drug Ekterly, KalVista is confident the oral offering will capture the lion’s share of the market for on-demand use.
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Shaun Thaxter, the former chief executive officer of Indivior, was sentenced in federal court Thursday, four months after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of sharing false information about the addictive properties of Suboxone Film, an opioid-based product.
Researchers with Pfizer and IBM developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that they claim can predict eventual onset of Alzheimer’s disease with 71% accuracy based on a language sample. They published the research today in The Lancet eClinicalMedicine.
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Moderna has fully enrolled its late-stage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trial by hitting its target of 30,000 participants. More than one-third of this cohort includes minority participants.
After reviewing its mid-pandemic performance, it became clear that its greatest challenge is around the handling of data, according to Amy P. Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D., principal deputy commissioner, FDA, speaking at the recent Demy-Colton Virtual Salon, the “Fusion of Technologies.”
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It’s a day of firsts, with the launch of two new Cambridge, Mass.-based life sciences companies.
Roche and Atea Pharmaceuticals are partnering to develop, manufacture and distribute AT-527, Atea’s experimental antiviral drug against COVID-19.
Finding and developing an effective treatment for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis has, so far, been met with as much futility and frustration as developing a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Sagimet Biosciences Chief Executive Officer George Kemble believes his company is on the right path, though.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Daiichi Sankyo is aiming to raise awareness about one of the most common forms of cancer across the globe.