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Venture funds attending the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference said mounting funding pressures and Chinese competition have sharpened their focus on leadership qualities, from regulatory expertise and industry experience to the ability to scale—or step aside—as companies mature.
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In a unanimous 21-0 vote, an FDA advisory committee recommended an updated monovalent formulation of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the now-dominant XBB.1.5 subvariant.
After an FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended Leqembi’s full approval, questions linger around amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and a potentially cumbersome patient registry.
The Japanese biopharma is diving deeper into targeted protein degradation, paying $35 million upfront for access to Cullgen’s uSMITE platform.
Eli Lilly has secured the rights to Verve Therapeutics’ gene editing approach, a “one-and-done” method that the companies hope will lower the cardiovascular risk factor lipoprotein(a).
Following cases of serious bleeding in patients, five of which were fatal, the regulator has put Mersana’s investigational antibody-drug conjugate UpRi on partial clinical hold in two ovarian cancer trials.
Jubilant Therapeutics’ differentiated, orally bioavailable molecules address both validated and novel therapeutic targets in oncology and immunology.
The biotech company is collaborating with Israel’s NeuroSense to study how the latter’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis candidate affects plasma neurofilament levels in patients.
The company announced Monday with its second-quarter earnings that the regulator has officially halted the Phase I study after a child with acute myeloid leukemia died following treatment.
The company teased data for efinopegdutide, a GLP-1/glucagon receptor co-agonist, in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis compared to Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide, which is not yet approved for NASH.
The initial public offering on the Nasdaq is a last-ditch effort by the biotech as there is “substantial doubt” as to the company’s “ability to continue as a going concern” without the IPO, according to its SEC filing.