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In its 2025 full year and fourth-quarter earnings call, Merck executives touted the merits of recent deals and what CEO Robert Davis called “probably the broadest and widest pipeline we’ve had in years.”
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After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
AstraZeneca’s $15 billion pledge to its China operations highlights the country’s advantages. But other regions are also hoping to host more clinical studies.
With Lykos’ regulatory failure now squarely in the rearview mirror, Compass Pathways and Definium are leading what one analyst suspects will be “a very big year for psychedelics.”
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Phacilitate’s annual event dawns as cell and gene therapies reach a new tipping point: the science has hit new heights just as regulatory and government policies spark momentum and frustration.
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Separate challenges exist for companies developing gene therapies for rare and common cardiovascular conditions, experts told BioSpace.
Sionna Therapeutics on Wednesday announced it raised another round of funding as the company looks to challenge Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ dominant cystic fibrosis business.
Sandoz’s two interchangeable biosimilars, Jubbonti and Xgeva, are poised to challenge Amgen’s blockbuster bone drug denosumab. However, no launch details were announced Tuesday due to ongoing patent litigation.
Despite its overall survival and disease progression benefits, the U.K.’s drug cost watchdog has declined to recommend AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu due to a lack of cost-effectiveness.
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Examining 50 existing drugs, researchers find that the IRA could cause drug developers to shy away from pursuing subsequent indications for their marketed drugs, thereby reducing the number of new approvals.
Companies inked 204 deals in the fourth quarter of 2023 with venture capital funding slipping to $6.3 billion from $7.8 billion in the third quarter last year, according to market data firm Pitchbook.
After oncology and neuroscience headlined biopharma investment in 2023, experts anticipate increased interest in the autoimmune and obesity spaces this year.
Varoglutamstat, a drug developed by German biotech Vivoryon Therapeutcs, did not hit its primary and secondary endpoints in a Phase IIb study in Alzheimer’s disease.