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AbbVie scooped up immunology player Apogee Therapeutics for nearly $11 billion in one of the year’s top deals to-date, while Sanofi made a big play to survive its upcoming Dupixent patent cliff; FDA uncertainty continues as the agency changes direction on gene therapies by uniQure and REGENXBIO; and Jef Akst and Annalee Armstrong report back from San Diego.
The combined business entity with Boundless Bio, which will carry Serapha Bio’s name and fold in Boundless Bio, will focus on the development of a gene editor for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
For the 2026 fiscal year, Takeda anticipates declines in revenue and profit, highlighting what CEO-elect Julie Kim says is the need for the company to “invest in future growth.”
Speaking to media on Tuesday, BIO CEO John Crowley complimented China’s rise as a biotech powerhouse but said U.S. policy needs to protect and maintain America’s lead.
With positive feedback on a Phase 3 trial design, Ollin Biosciences has collected a $330 million series B to advance its VEGF/Ang2 antibody, which bested Genentech’s therapy in a head-to-head study.
Controlling CEOs, manipulative middle managers and high-performing jerks can damage employees’ trust in employers and motivate them to hit the job market. Kaye/Bassman’s Michael Pietrack discusses the problematic behaviors executives must watch for in the workplace.
Even biopharma’s biggest players have been forced to take a hard look at their businesses and realign their cost structures to cope with the continued and compounding challenges plaguing the industry.
While merger and acquisition activity has been robust of late, frequent changes in guidance and leadership at the regulator add risk to any transaction.
Follow along as BioSpace tracks job cuts and restructuring initiatives.
As Sangamo runs out of cash, Eli Lilly and Astellas have emerged as stalking horse bidders for key assets, including a Fabry gene therapy currently being submitted for potential FDA approval.
Given its intravenous route of administration, Merck’s tulisokibart will likely “need to be meaningfully improved” over Roche’s afimkibart, which can be given subcutaneously, BMO Capital Markets analysts said. Both assets are being tested for ulcerative colitis.
Eli Lilly’s weight-loss franchise—including the tirzepatide products Mounjaro and Zepbound, and the weight-loss pill Foundayo—is projected to account for nearly half of the total sales of the top 10 drugs in 2032.
PRESS RELEASES
CEO Daniel Haders, PhD, will highlight upcoming catalyst events for the company’s two lead assets: MDL-001, a first-in-class, universal, direct-acting therapeutic for influenza-like-illness (ILI) and chronic hepatitis, targeting the novel RdRp Thumb-1 site, and MDL-4102, a first-in-class therapeutic for various cancers and inflammatory diseases, targeting the epigenetic reader and master regulator of gene transcription, BRD4.
Nitto Denko Avecia begins first commercial-scale cGMP production of PH-762 drug substance Newly manufactured supply will support upcoming clinical trial in next development phase