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The cholesterol-lowering drug is part of a suite of medicines that also includes MariTide and that Amgen Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton hopes will make the company the “undisputed leader in the management of cardiometabolic risk for patients” by 2030.
Eli Lilly has been on a dealmaking spree this year, with a few deals worth $1 billion or more. Aside from SangeneBio, these include SiteOne, Verve and Scorpion.
Multiple analyst firms were impressed by the Phase III data, which showed that Merck’s oral PCSK9 inhibitor can lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol by more than 55% after 24 weeks.
The deal is done. What happens next for Pfizer and Metsera—and Novo?
A new generation of companies is eyeing the existing, sizeable hair loss market, hoping that better formulations and new scientific targets will finally produce treatments that are safer and more effective, as well as commercially successful.
After a bidding war erupted between Pfizer and Novo Nordisk over the fledgling obesity drugmaker, Metsera sided with its original suitor in a final agreement announced late Friday evening.
During a press conference to announce a drug price deal for GLP-1s, President Donald Trump asked for more details about the ongoing bidding war between Novo Nordisk and Pfizer over obesity biotech Metsera.
Following restricted vaccine approvals and changes to CDC immunization schedules, Merck, Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi are all suffering revenue hits to their vaccine programs.
The Phase III results impressed Guggenheim Partners analysts both in terms of efficacy and safety. If approved, atacicept would become the first APRIL/BAFF inhibitor for IgAN to make it to the market.
The FDA previously placed two clinical studies on hold, including the Phase III trial in which the liver toxicity occurred. Intellia is working with experts to create a risk management program for nex-z.
Darzalex Faspro’s approval for smoldering multiple myeloma could allow for earlier intervention and reduce the risk of progression to active disease.
The nausea and other gastrointestinal side effects of weight loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy or Eli Lilly’s Zepbound will limit how much these drugs can help patients and stunt the overall obesity market unless we approach the problem head on.
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.