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Executive coaches can help executives take their game to the next level in four key ways, from improving their self-awareness to reshaping their thinking.
Exelixis’ next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor zanzalintinib is being tested for colorectal cancer, renal cell carcinoma and head-and-neck cancer, with several readouts slated for the second half of 2025.
Recently appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2018 helped bring several cases against vaccine maker Merck, alleging injury linked to its HPV shot Gardasil.
Merck’s Keytruda may be the most talked about drug facing loss of exclusivity but it’s far from the only one, as several of the industry’s top-performers are losing key market protections. Some companies are more prepared than others.
Elisa Cascade, CPO at Advarra explains why addressing the challenges faced by clinical research sites is vital for improving patient trust and the overall viability of clinical trials.
The FDA is mired in uncertainty with some staffers losing their jobs over the weekend and more potentially to come, vaccines and psychedelic therapies could be facing very different futures under newly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Moderna continues its downward revenue slide and Merck, Regeneron, BMS and more face strong patent headwinds.
The partnership splits the rights to Stoke’s epilepsy antisense oligonucleotide, with up to $385 million in potential payments due to Stoke.
Back in 2023, Novo Nordisk committed up to $1.3 billion for a hypertension and kidney disease drug from KBP Biosciences. Now, the pharma giant claims to have been misled by the biotech’s founder—and a judge seems to agree.
AlgoTherapeutix blames a “strong placebo effect” for the mid-stage failure for its pain gel ATX01, but the company still believes in the promise of its candidate as Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ first-in-class drug Journavx opens up the non-opioid space.
In the first podcast in a special series focused on BioSpace’s NextGen Class of 2025, Senior Editor Annalee Armstrong speaks with Dannielle Appelhans, CEO of COUR.
Casdatifan’s progression-free survival benefits could help differentiate it from Merck’s Welireg in the kidney cancer arena, according to analysts at Truist Securities.
COUR Pharmaceuticals has been around a while, but not until last year did the company solidify behind its ultimate mission with a series A raise.
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Expanded sweetener molecule development program aims to broaden access to plant-based sweetening solutions tailored to diverse customer food and beverage categories.
• $5.5 million financing that closed on April 2, 2026 together with $5.7 million in capital raised in Q1-2026, expected to provide Company with cash runway into 2027 • $4.5 million of accrued VAT refunds and R&D refundable tax credits from UK subsidiary begin maturing, including $1.9 million VAT cash refund expected in June 2026 • Successful EMA and Australia TGA (ATGA) meetings aligned around use of existing biomarker and pending release of 3-year overall survival data to support Conditional Marketing Authorisations (CMAs) for OST-HER2 in prevention or delay of recurrence in fully-resected, pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma (“Metastatic Osteosarcoma”) • 2.5-year overall survival data expected to be released during ASCO 2026 • EMA and ATGA have aligned on key design aspects of confirmatory Phase 3 Metastatic Osteosarcoma protocol required to have commenced prior to grant of CMAs or FDA BLA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint • Upcoming U.S. FDA Type C meeting and U.K. MHRA SAM meeting to align with EMA & ATGA prior to Australia Clinical Trial Notification submission for Phase 3, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint. U.S. FDA (“FDA”) Pre-BLA meeting to confirm alignment on surrogate and primary clinical efficacy endpoints with EMA/ATGA, including alignment on 3-year overall survival as a primary clinical efficacy endpoint, and seek decisions on rolling review acceptance and RMAT designation following the EMA and U.K. MHRA granting ATMP designation (EMA/MHRA RMAT equivalent) for OST-HER2 in Metastatic Osteosarcoma • OS Animal Health S-1 filing for proposed ‘Go-Public’ transaction and receipt of SEC comments