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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.

With the latest round, Roche’s Genentech will have racked up nearly 450 layoffs in California over the last year amid ongoing restructuring. At the same time, the biotech is joining forces with Astex Pharmaceuticals in a deal that could surpass $490 million.

Follow along as BioSpace tracks job cuts and restructuring initiatives.

Scribe Therapeutics’ pipeline is immature, with its lead program recently greenlit for first-in-human testing. The biotech is working on CRISPR-based therapies for cardiometabolic diseases.

The centerpiece of the acquisition is Myricx Bio’s novel N-myristoyltransferase inhibitor payload platform, which could help Novartis develop antibody-drug conjugates that can overcome the limitations of existing therapies.

BridgeBio’s Attruby preserves kidney function in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy, an effect that is “distinct” from other drugs in this space, according to Jefferies.

Molecular glue degraders are gaining traction in the clinic as well as funding from Big Pharma, with their potential to treat previously “undruggable” cancers and immunological diseases. Here are five clinical programs worth keeping an eye on.

Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.

Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.

Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.

Many of the FDA’s decisions this quarter involve applications that have previously been delayed, declined or outright rejected, including one for an mRNA vaccine that became the center of controversy earlier this year.

AstraZeneca and CSPC Pharmaceutical Group have already inked two other agreements this year, including an obesity-focused deal in January and one focused on chronic diseases in June.

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