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As part of cost-cutting efforts, Alector is letting go of about 25 people as it focuses on advancing its preclinical and research pipeline. Alector is also continuing clinical-stage work on programs for frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
The British pharmaceutical giant is working with the U.K. Dementia Research Institute to exploit a “natural randomization” experiment to determine whether 65- and 66-year-olds who received GSK’s shingles vaccine Shingrix have reduced dementia risk.
The 9% average salary increase from 2023 to 2024 was the largest for life sciences professionals since 2021. Several factors could be behind the spike, including companies providing higher pay because bonuses and stock compensation went down.
Led by alums from Takeda and Boston Pharmaceuticals, Hillstar Bio is working on treatments that remove harmful immune cells to relieve disease.
Merck joins a growing list of companies targeting lipoprotein(a), high levels of which are associated with an elevated risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on pharmaceuticals “to come at some point,” per CNBC, as companies promise to build infrastructure in the U.S.
The Eylea franchise was in need of a win after an appellate court last week denied the pharma’s bid to block Amgen’s biosimilar from the U.S.
If confirmed, Susan Monarez will have her work cut out for her, facing a measles outbreak that has already killed two people—the first measles-related deaths in the U.S. since 2015.
The company, launched with help from ex-Novartis executives, is targeting glutamate signaling in the brain to help treat alcohol- and cocaine-use disorders, among other indications.
Novo will license UTB251, a triple hormone receptor agonist that in mid-2023 achieved 24% weight reduction at 48 weeks in a mid-stage study.
The investments come amid an ongoing insurance fraud probe into AstraZeneca’s former China head Leon Wang—and despite mounting pressure from President Trump for pharma companies to re-shore their manufacturing operations.
PRESS RELEASES
NIH Phase I SBIR grant will support development of a low-cost, multiplexed, at-home hormone test to transform menopause care.
Indiana-based radiopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization producing Ac-225 at a scale
Partnership with “Saffron Tech” to Advance Production of One of the World’s Most Valuable Botanicals Management Concurrently Shares Third Quarter 2025 Preliminary Results and Provides Guidance for the Fourth Quarter of 2025
At Google Cloud’s second annual Cancer AI Symposium, Model Medicines will unveil how its GALILEO™ platform, built on Google Cloud, powered a 325 billion molecule throughput oncology screen — the largest of its kind — opening the door to trillion‑scale discovery and culminating in the discovery of MDL‑4102, a potent and selective BRD4 inhibitor.