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While Daiichi Sankyo brought in $13.4 billion in 2025, setbacks forced the company to update its antibody-drug conjugate forecast, pushing demand below the minimum supply agreed upon with CMOs and prompting the cancellation of an in-house investment.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health department has consistently touted radical transparency as being key to its mission. Recent instances—the FDA’s decision not to disclose the recipients of three Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers and FDA and CDC choices not to publish vaccine-related papers—call this intent into question.
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The investment arm of the Novo Nordisk Foundation is acquiring contract development and manufacturing organization Catalent to help meet high demand for Ozempic and Wegovy.
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The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will meet on March 15 to discuss BMS and J&J applications for their CAR T-cell therapies Abecma and Carvykti, respectively.
The Japanese pharma’s financial numbers showed a drop in operating revenue as it signed a $300 million license and collaboration agreement with Protagonist Therapeutics.
The company’s blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda continues to be a significant boon to its bottom line, according to Merck’s fourth quarter and full-year 2023 financial results.
With one disease-modifying therapy already reaching patients and another expected to soon, several biopharma companies anticipate key data for novel assets in the coming 12 months.
While AbbVie beat revenue expectations in the fourth quarter of 2023, the company reported Friday that its overall sales last year declined as it faced biosimilar competition for its blockbuster Humira.