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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.
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BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
While Alnylam’s recent reduced revenue guidance spooked investors, analysts remain broadly bullish on the biotech’s commercial prospects.
The first-time CEO says her own sponsors took chances on her—and that industry leaders need to do the same to rebuild momentum for gender equity.
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In this episode of Denatured, presented by Cytiva, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Nicolas Pivet, VP & GM, Manufacturing & Digital Solutions at Cytiva. In this episode, we explore how biopharma’s real bottleneck isn’t too little data—it’s too little confidence in the decisions that drive development, manufacturing and commercialization.
The Gilead Sciences deal, which include $135 million in upfront and near-term payments, marks a critical platform validation for Vir Biotechnology as investors await an upcoming readout in solid tumors.
Revolution Medicines’ recently approved drug showed a 24% overall response rate and a high rate of side effects in patients whose cancer has a G12D mutation, reinforcing Mizuho’s view that a more specific agent such as Verastem Oncology’s VS-7375 “should come first for G12D patients.”
Since his release from prison in 2022, Martin Shkreli has traded stocks and publicly opined on news events, damaging reputations and sinking share prices for small biotechs including Capricor and Cassava, the FTC alleges.
Obesity-focused Zealand Pharma is buying into Generate:Biomedicines’s generative AI platform to create new multispecific drug candidates.
The candidate is an oral version of ecnoglutide, a subcutaneous formulation of which is approved in China for type 2 diabetes and weight management. Pfizer owns commercialization rights for ecnoglutide in the Asian country.
Johnson & Johnson beat analyst expectations in the third quarter but left Wall Street wanting more; BMS dominated the news cycle on Monday with a Phase 3 win validating its $4.1 billion RayzeBio buy and mixed data in a late-stage pulmonary fibrosis trial; Revolution Medicines’ newly approved pancreatic cancer drug works better for patients with certain mutations; and Caribou Biosciences may be on its way out.
While industry leaders are unsure whether the U.S. or China will prevail, they are largely united in the belief that Europe is lagging behind.
While BNT113 failed to improve progression-free survival in patients with a type of head and neck cancer during a Phase 3 trial, BioNTech is holding out hope for an overall survival win—but analysts say that outcome is now “less likely.”
Roche has gained access to a genetic obesity approach from China’s Rona Therapeutics for up to $100 million in upfront and near-term payments.