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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” decisionmaking, 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.
As Novo Nordisk continues to lose ground in the obesity market to rival Eli Lilly, the Danish company has started construction projects to establish the ex-Alkermes plant as a hub for supplying oral GLP-1 products to global markets.
Aardvark Therapeutics is down 54% since Friday after the biotech said it detected “reversible cardiac observations” in a healthy volunteer study of its drug to treat extreme hunger in patients with the rare genetic disease.
Follow along as BioSpace tracks job cuts and restructuring initiatives.
IPO
Generate:Biomedicines has hit the public markets as the world begins to question the usefulness of AI technology. CEO Mike Nally says biology is the key to unlocking the technology’s full potential.
Yuviwel will compete with BioMarin’s Voxzogo. Meanwhile, BridgeBio is working to bring its own achondroplasia drug, the FGFR3 blocker infigratinib, to the market.
CDC
One of the two new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines before the Texas Senate in 2021.
A combination of Merck’s Keytruda and Pfizer’s Padcev could offer a chemotherapy-free treatment alternative for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, even those eligible for cisplatin treatment.
PRESS RELEASES
$30.0 million upfront with up to an additional $48.0 million of potential aggregate gross proceeds upon the exercise in full of milestone-linked warrants for cash Offering led by Nantahala Capital, with participation of healthcare-dedicated funds, including Broadfin Holdings, and participation from existing shareholder, Glen Taylor, and members of the Company’s board of directors and management Net proceeds extend anticipated cash runway into second half of 2027, beyond expected PMA submission; if milestone-linked warrants are exercised in full for cash, it is anticipated that the cash runway would extend well beyond first full year of commercialization
Management to host conference call at 8:00 AM Eastern time on Thursday, February 12, 2026
L7 Informatics CEO explains why the next wave of life sciences innovation depends on digital unified platforms that orchestrate workflows, contextualize data, and enable AI-actionable operations.
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