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After its next-generation obesity asset CagriSema lost a head-to-head matchup with Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, Novo Nordisk is throwing more money into the obesity space, striking a deal with Vivtex to advance novel weight loss pills.

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump urged Republican leaders to pass legislation cementing his new drug pricing initiatives as he touted his efforts to lower healthcare costs for Americans.

The rescheduling of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices comes amid fresh leadership upheaval at the CDC as NIH director Jay Bhattacharya replaces Jim O’Neill as acting head of the agency.

Solstice Oncology will gain an exclusive worldwide license to Harbour BioMed’s porustobrt, an anti-CTLA-4 antibody currently being studied for melanoma, colorectal cancer and other malignancies in China.

A trial of a MacroGenics’ drug temporarily paused enrollment after several safety events, including a fatality. The deceased patient had developed a severe case of neutropenia and concurrent septic shock.

Slate Medicines will move forward with a migraine drug from a Chinese biotech, while Alveus Therapeutics will advance a dual GLP-1/GIPR fusion protein for weight loss.

Eli Lilly notches another win over Novo Nordisk, as Zepbound bests CagriSema in a head-to-head trial sponsored by Novo; The FDA kicked off Rare Disease Week, providing draft guidance on its new plausible mechanism pathway, while a bipartisan senate hearing on Thursday will focus on the authorization process for rare conditions; Another leadership change shakes up CDC; and Gilead acquires CAR T partner Arcellx for nearly $8 billion.

Regulators overseeing rare disease treatments need better tools to weigh competing risks in real time. Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys is a prime example of why.

LB Pharma needed $350 million to advance a promising schizophrenia candidate at a time when the biotech markets were locked up tight. Fortunately, it wasn’t CEO Heather Turner’s first rodeo.

Rare disease drug developers struggle to survive in a biopharma investment market that prioritizes large patient populations. Initiatives like the Orphan Therapeutics Accelerator are attempting to solve what CEO Craig Martin says is not a science problem, but a math problem.

Taking an early proof of concept into preclinical and clinical development is a costly and complex process. But there are strategic ways to streamline the process and reduce risk and costs. In this webinar, you’ll hear directly from Nobel Laureate Sir Michael Houghton and experts from Applied Pharma, who bring decades of real-world success and deep scientific expertise.

The company plans to divest a drug it has made for 40 years, citing increasing production costs and falling prices.

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