Drug Development
After a sluggish 2025, biotech IPOs have roared back to life. Fueled by resilient stock performances and improving market sentiment, the total number of public debuts so far this year has already eclipsed 2025’s total.
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Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
Saol Therapeutics is the latest biotech to resubmit for approval of a drug rejected under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, following REGENXBIO and Replimune.
After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
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An investigational mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck reached its primary efficacy endpoint, inducing a clinically meaningful improvement in recurrence-free survival.
Developed initially to deliver cytotoxic payloads to tumors, antibody therapeutics are evolving to provide new, next-generation conjugates and treat various diseases beyond cancer.
Seagen’s top-selling drug hit the mark in another major indication.
Affimed will not seek accelerated approval for AFM13 as a monotherapy in advanced-stage relapsed/refractory peripheral T cell lymphoma.
Wall Street is no longer enamored with NASH drug developers.
Combinations including Ibrutinib stood out in hard-to-treat hematological cancers at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting.
As 2022 comes to its conclusion, the FDA has a handful of Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments still to wrap up. Here’s a look at that and more.
UCB shared positive top-line results Friday from two Phase III studies of bimekizumab for adults with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa.
Autolus Therapeutics is calling the Phase II FELIX trial, assessing its next-generation CAR-T therapy obe-cel for leukemia, a win after an interim analysis revealed an overall remission rate of 70%.
A combination of Exelixis’ cabozantinib and Roche’s Tecentriq missed the primary endpoint of overall survival in a Phase III study.