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Heading into the final quarter of a year that has seen dramatic upheaval at the FDA—from the exodus of numerous senior leaders to unclear policy changes and a safety saga that engulfed the gene therapy space—drug approvals appear roughly on par with recent years.
Therapies from industry leaders BioMarin and Ascendis Pharma supply a key hormone that promotes bone growth. In order to move the field forward, challengers are looking to address the underlying cause of the rare, genetic disease.
The British pharmaceutical giant has joined the direct-to-consumer push, following Pfizer and Amgen’s announcements in response to the president’s calls to lower U.S. drug prices.
A new version of the controversial bill removes the specific company names that were included in a previous iteration but still requires the industry to ditch Chinese biotech contractors in order to receive federal dollars.
Investor reaction to the deal was muted, with BMO Capital Markets analysts saying they “continue to look for more” from Bristol Myers Squibb before they can “get excited about the near term turnaround story.”
AviadoBio will have the option to exclusively license UGX-202, a vision-restoring gene therapy for the rare eye condition retinitis pigmentosa.
GoodRx, an online platform that offers drug discount coupons to patients, is in talks with the government to participate in the forthcoming TrumpRx program.
The British proposal to increase support for pharma is “clearly positive,” according to analysts at Leerink, who noted that the NHS’ move will improve patient access to treatments.
Novo will add Akero’s efruxifermin to its MASH portfolio, which includes Wegovy after the GLP-1 gained an FDA nod in the indication earlier this year.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was scheduled to convene Oct. 22 to 23, but this meeting has been postponed, with no new date specified. The delay comes as the VA published new research showing that COVID-19 shots prevented hospitalizations and death.
The layoffs are part of the company’s shift to a new structure enabling cost efficiency for its new model.
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PRESS RELEASES
Integration into McKesson’s Medical-Surgical Solutions marketplace serving a nationwide customer base
Phase I results provide platform-level validation supporting AdJane’s broader development programs in pandemic preparedness, respiratory infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance
International experts from leading universities, global biopharmaceutical companies, and investment organizations will convene in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 14–16, 2026, for the fourth edition of RGMBS.
Leinfelden, Germany. Recent infectious disease events—from hantavirus outbreaks and meningitis cases to recurring disease outbreaks in livestock farming—highlight the need for flexibly scalable vaccine manufacturing processes. To address this challenge, Stuttgart-based technology company KyooBe Tech has developed a platform designed to accelerate vaccine production. This technology is now also available to external users for studies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI).
AmesNet’s Task-Conditioned Learning architecture outperforms FDA, MIT, Tencent, and the University of Sydney models in both sensitivity and balanced accuracy on out-of-domain chemical data on a public dataset; AmesNet is built on top of ChemPrint, the core and proprietary deep-learning engine of the GALILEO platform that powers the company’s drug pipeline.