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Merck’s Keytruda will soon lose exclusivity, just as weight-loss giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk press in with their blockbuster GLP-1s.
Poplar Therapeutics is seeking a “step change” in the treatment of food allergy and other atopic conditions, with $95 million raised to date, including a $45 million series A extension that closed Tuesday.
This webinar explores how collaborative-initiated trials and Investigator-Initiated Trials (IITs) are complementing traditional drug development to accelerate innovation, advance precision medicine, and address clinically meaningful questions.
Follow along as BioSpace tracks job cuts and restructuring initiatives.
OSE Immunotherapeutics has kicked off a strategic realignment initiative that involves deprioritizing the AbbVie-partnered OSE-230 and focusing its resources on the late-stage development of its ulcerative colitis candidate lusvertikimab.
The FDA last October paused Intellia Therapeutics’ late-stage CRISPR studies after detecting life-threatening enzyme elevations in one patient, who died a few days later.
In a complete response letter published by the FDA on Monday, the agency said a resubmission for REGENXBIO’s Hunter syndrome gene therapy should provide evidence of normalized or improved biomarker levels or neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Infrastructure and location have helped make Holly Springs a future hub for obesity drug production, with Amgen and Roche planning to manufacture GLP-1 therapies there to compete in the growing market.
Here’s how drug developers can best approach interactions with the agency following last year’s seismic changes to its leadership, workforce and policies.
FDA
FDA decisions lack majority consensus, experts agree, possibly leading to less nuanced verdicts on new drug applications. This type of “fiat” decision-making, as multiple regulatory experts have called it, is also bleeding into the agency’s policymaking.
Less than a year after cutting roughly 30% of its employees, BioAtla is letting go of an even larger chunk of its workforce as it considers its future, which could include strategic partnerships and selling off assets.
Days after FDA Commissioner Marty Makary appeared to malign uniQure’s AMT-130 in an interview with CNBC, the agency confirmed to the biotech that a sham surgery–controlled study is needed before submitting the gene therapy for approval.
PRESS RELEASES
New interim results from the EpiCom trial, a prospective evaluation of behavioral outcomes in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, suggest improvements in non-seizure outcomes Eight abstracts, including four late-breaking abstracts, underscore Jazz’s continued commitment to the epilepsy community and advancing the comprehensive treatment for rare forms of epilepsy
U.S. FDA grants waiver of application fee for BLA Filing of OST-HER2 Scheduled pre-Marketing Authorisation Application meeting with United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on December 8, 2025 Scheduled Type C Meeting with United States Food & Drug Administration on December 11, 2025
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