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Strong science and early support are not enough on their own. Europe needs more capital depth, cross-border investor backing and a lighter policy framework to keep companies scaling at home, according to two venture capitalists.
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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace examines how the FDA approval of Eli Lilly’s oral obesity drug Foundayo has ignited a key race with Novo Nordisk.
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While the German biotech that partnered with Pfizer on a COVID vaccine sees its first lawsuit, legal experts don’t expect similar cases in the U.S.
Following disappointing Phase IIb results, BioSenic is pausing the development of its tibial fracture cell therapy ALLOB derived from mesenchymal stem cells.
In the first head-to-head trial of CGRP antagonists, Lilly’s Emgality failed to demonstrate that it was significantly better than Pfizer’s Nurtec ODT at easing migraine headaches.
The company reported results Friday from the KEYNOTE-811 trial in which the anti-PD-1 therapy took an important step toward FDA approval for rare esophageal tumors.
The data for Reproxalap, Aldeyra Therapeutics’ drug for treating allergic conjunctivitis and dry-eye disease, could potentially pave the way for an alternative to over-the-counter eye drops.
The Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium intends to bring AAV-based gene therapies to patients whose diseases are often ignored by commercial interests.
In the latest HEALEY trial readout, Clene’s CNM-Au8 significantly reduced plasma neurofilament light chain levels in ALS patients, which could be a strong and reliable signal of its clinical benefit.
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.