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EyePoint is initiating a strategic review after duravyu failed another Phase 3 trial in wet age-related macular degeneration. Amid significant layoffs and trial terminations, the company is shifting attention to the asset’s potential in diabetic macular edema.
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Disc Medicine’s bitopertin—rejected by the FDA in February—significantly reduced levels of a key disease biomarker and significantly increased the time patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria were able to spend in the sun and artificial light.
At the European Society of Medical Oncology meeting in Madrid this weekend, analysts will be watching for detailed data on Merck and Moderna’s personalized cancer vaccine, Summit and Akeso’s PD-1xVEGF bispecific therapy, and a host of antibody-drug conjugates.
While GLP-1 medicines have become synonymous with weight loss, at least one expert thinks amylin would have been the go-to target if biopharma had been focused on the blockbuster indication 10 years ago. A new wave of therapies is now exploring this potentially gentler mechanism.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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In the wake of a successful IPO and strong stock growth throughout the year, Veradermics now has late-stage data to support a regulatory package for its hair loss pill.
As trispecifics, cell engagers and other complex formats multiply, drug developers are seeking discovery and engineering partners to help navigate an expanding universe of molecular possibilities.
Estuary Biotherapeutics is seeking to address the root cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with two gene therapy programs based on science from Yale.
City Therapeutics will join a slew of biotechs that have entered the public markets this year, with a $200 million raise that landed above expectations.
Inconsistent reporting at a Pennsylvania site affected microbiological analyses of components and drug products that analytical testing service provider Eurofins ran for customers.
The sixth cycle of OrbiMed’s Asia Partners fund included one with more than $1 billion earmarked for life science companies based on the Eastern continent.
After years of quiet maturation, new approach methodologies and emerging clinical success for cell therapies are fueling parallel momentum for induced pluripotent stem cells.
AstraZeneca will tap AI-focused insitro to find new targets for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and cardiomyopathies, following the Phase 3 failure of its Ionis-partnered Wainua in transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Following several recent initiatives, the FDA’s newest rare disease framework sets out to standardize the agency’s approach to scientific evidence and bring rare disease therapies to patients faster.
A new biotech co-founded by Paul Stoffels has formed to take on the CAR T cell assets of Galapagos almost a year after the company—now known as Lakefront Biotherapeutics—abandoned them.