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The deal extends AbbVie’s commitment to the psychedelics space and depression, after emraclidine’s high-profile flop in schizophrenia last November.
Arnatar is developing ART4, an antisense oligonucleotide that ups the expression of its target protein to treat a rare disease called Alagille syndrome.
Thousands of employees across the Department of Health and Human Services are set to lose their collective bargaining rights in a move that American Federation of Government Employees national president Everett Kelley called “illegal and immoral.”
Earlier this month, the FDA backed off on a pause in shipments of the chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq to older adults. Now, the regulator has reversed course.
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, which Commissioner Marty Makary called “clunky,” previously published updates on a quarterly basis.
The mad rush for safe and effective obesity drugs has winners—including Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy—and losers. Here are five molecules that never made it to the market.
While it’s impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons of the many obesity candidates with so many differences across clinical trials, we at BioSpace are giving it our best shot.
With results from highly anticipated trials of Eli Lilly’s orforglipron and Viking Therapeutics’ VK2735 “underwhelming” investors, William Blair’s Andy Hsieh predicts weight loss pills will play a bigger role in low- and middle-income countries than in the U.S.
There’s still much more to come from the White House on tariffs, but the European Union has now reached a trade agreement with the U.S.
The drug, for hereditary angioedema, is Ionis’ second wholly owned asset.
Vanda claims that two generics to its sleep disorder drug Hetlioz were approved despite inadequate data and is requesting that FDA Commissioner Marty Makary revisit the decision.
Krystal Biotech’s decision follows the FDA’s rejection last month of Replimune’s RP1, which works similarly to Krystal Biotech’s KB707. The biotech said this has introduced “heightened uncertainty” regarding a potential accelerated pathway for the candidate.
PRESS RELEASES
• New patent application covers treatment-emergent immune signature related to ‘turning cold tumors hot’ and the activation of targeted cytotoxic cellular immune responses • Company to host conference call later in April 2026 to review new biomarker signature • Biomarker signature meets pharmacodynamic/response criteria established by FDA’s Biomarkers, EndpointS and other Tools (BEST) program for use as a surrogate clinical endpoint of 1-year event free survival and 2-year overall survival in OST-HER2’s Phase 2b trial in the prevention of delay of recurrent, fully-resected, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma to support a BLA submission under FDA’s Accelerated Approval Program
Anticipated peptide reclassification could expand the addressable market for PharmaTher’s PharmaPatch™ product strategy and PatchPrint™ manufacturing platform, strengthening its position in next-generation peptide delivery
Proven Med Tech Leader with an Established Track Record of Commercial Success and Optimizing Shareholder Value Leading to over $3.4 Billion in Successful Exits
Model Medicines’ antiviral intellectual property portfolio encompasses 15 patent families covering novel compositions of matter, multi-scaffold Markush chemistry, formulations, and broad-spectrum methods of use across RNA and DNA viruses
· New XSeed Labs team at Servier’s Paris-Saclay campus brings together AI and immunology expertise to advance next-generation biologics.
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