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LB Pharma will test the IPO market to seek funding for a Phase III-ready schizophrenia asset.
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.
PRESS RELEASES
Treatment Phase for Lead Clinical Candidate PH-762 Dose Escalation Trial is Complete with Favorable Safety, Tolerability and Pathology Data 2025 Financings and Warrant Exercises Strengthen Balance Sheet with $23.7 Million in Net Proceeds, Extending Cash Runway into the First Half of 2027
· RIPPLE™ (Remote Induction of Pulsed Pressure Lateral to Energy) is a proprietary ultrasound-mediated delivery technology. · RIPPLE™ has been developed to enable efficient, redosable, targeted, and safe delivery of a diverse range of genetic medicines with broad tissue biodistribution, including skeletal, cardiac, and diaphragm muscles.
Live Presentation and Q&A: Monday, March 9, 2026 10 AM EDT CEO to Discuss INTASYL Platform and PH-762 Phase 1b Results