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It’s official: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is out at the FDA after reports of his ouster emerged late last week; Sanofi is reportedly having challenges with one of the FDA’s new signature programs; and biopharma CEOs’ multimillion-dollar salaries ticked up again this year. Who made the most in 2025?
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Three pharma CEOs joined the $30 million compensation club in 2025 but Eli Lilly’s David Ricks exceeded his nearest peer by more than $4 million.
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After years of suffering from a bear market and more than 14 months of geopolitical turmoil shaking the macroenvironment, biotech appears to be moving on.
New guidelines from two leading medical associations suggest that efforts to reduce bad cholesterol should focus on maintaining low levels of two key lipoproteins. Big pharma is all in, looking to improve on the standard statins to help vanquish America’s number one killer: heart disease.
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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.
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Facing the loss of Humira revenues from biosimilar competition, AbbVie is looking to grow its pipeline by acquiring ImmunoGen and its antibody-drug conjugate Elahere, which was granted FDA accelerated approval last year.
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For forms of Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s caused by genetic defects, gene therapy could change the treatment landscape.
The regulator accepted Karuna Therapeutics’ NDA and set a PDUFA date of September 26, 2024. If approved, it would be the first new mechanism of action to treat schizophrenia in decades, the company contends.
The troubled Indian pharma company received its second FDA warning letter in months, which this time cited quality control and data integrity lapses at its manufacturing facility in Gujarat, India.
The pharma giant is paying $9 million upfront to Phenomic AI to develop targets for stroma-rich cancers, some of the hardest cancers to treat, utilizing its single-cell RNA computing platform.
BioSpace spoke to analysts and players in the contract manufacturing and development organizations space to assess the challenges this year and what lies ahead in 2024.
This week on The Weekly we talk struggles with ⁠GLP-1 drug shortages⁠ and what that might mean for Novo and Lilly competitors; Regeneron and Sanofi positive results for ⁠⁠⁠Dupixent⁠⁠⁠ in COPD. Plus, Merck ⁠buys Caraway⁠, Beigene’s ⁠deal⁠ with Ensem, ⁠ups⁠ and ⁠downs⁠ for Flagship.
In a deal with Tokyo-based PRISM BioLab, Eli Lilly will gain access to the Japanese biotech’s proprietary platform to develop small molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.
Using electronic health records, healthcare analytics firm Truveta contends that Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro (tirzepatide) could achieve stronger and faster weight loss than Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic (semaglutide).