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BioNTech envisioned the site making hundreds of millions of vaccines a year, but has since shifted its pipeline to other modalities while mRNA technology continues to face headwinds in the U.S.

While some large companies could start paying the full tariff in 120 days, many products, including orphan drugs, cell and gene therapies, and antibody-drug conjugates, will enjoy exemptions that waive or greatly reduce the levies.

After a flurry of deals over the past week from Eli Lilly, Merck and Biogen, analysts predict more M&A action from other big names, including Novartis, Amgen and AbbVie.

After Eli Lilly achieved the milestone approval of the weight loss pill Foundayo, Novo Nordisk launched a full-court press to defend oral Wegovy, which has been enjoying a record-breaking launch since January.

With CBER director Vinay Prasad set to depart the agency at the end of the month, a coalition of patient groups and biotech executives penned a letter imploring the Trump administration to “restore regulatory clarity” for rare disease therapies. Experts on a BioSpace panel last week also acknowledged the challenges faced by a more stringent FDA.

As Big Pharma companies consider foregoing European drug launches to avoid reducing drug prices in the U.S. in alignment with Trump’s Most Favored Nation policy, patients will suffer.

COVID-19 partners Pfizer and BioNTech have been unable to recruit healthy adults aged 50 to 64 fast enough to deliver relevant post-marketing data. Moderna is apparently also facing enrollment challenges.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll listen to Dr. Marc Hedrick, President and CEO of Plus Therapeutics and Dr. Phil Kantoff, CEO & Co-founder of Convergent Therapeutics. They discuss breakthroughs like alpha-emitting isotopes, supply chain solutions and why radiotherapeutics is biotech’s next big frontier.

Looking for a biopharma job? Check out the BioSpace list of 12 top companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.

Drug discovery can be an uphill battle, especially lately given recent upheaval at the FDA and muted investment activity. BioSpace spoke to four industry executives about key issues facing those working in this space, starting with planning around uncertainty.

As Novo Nordisk cuts 400 jobs at the troubled site, Scholar Rock has seen enough progress that it included the facility in a resubmission for FDA approval.

VINIA’s leadership position in the market validates its superior arterial dilation and blood flow performance as well as BioHarvest’s Botanical Synthesis platform technology

Leveraging its PharmaPatch™ experience, the Company is introducing PatchPrint™ to support existing microneedle patch programs and expand into on-demand personalized patch solutions, including peptide patches, branded wellness patches, manufacturing systems and commercial partnerships.

Ligand-independent mechanism of action of SignaBlok’s first-in-class TREM-1 inhibitors enables development of cell-unspecific and macrophage-targeted TREM-1 inhibitors · In experimental pancreatic cancer, macrophage-targeted but not cell-unspecific TREM-1 inhibitor: − prevents cancer recurrence, improves complete response rate and survival, when administered in a time window of 7 days after standard-of-care (SOC) chemotherapy − reverses immunosuppression and overcomes cancer resistance to anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy · Timely resolution of acute inflammation induced by SOC cancer treatments (chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, radiopharmaceuticals, etc.) can be a common approach to prevent cancer recurrence, increase response rate and survival for not only pancreatic cancer but also other hard-to-treat tumors