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Just a few days after FDA Commissioner Makary resigned, ally Tracy Beth Høeg is also leaving the agency. Her departure comes amid reports of tension over a commissioner’s voucher for Sanofi’s diabetes drug.
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European pharma companies splashed billions of dollars into the U.S. biopharma sector in a matter of days, but there are differing views on whether the activity represents the rise of a new buyer class or a quirk of timing.
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.
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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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Following the regulator’s denial of patisiran’s label expansion, Alnylam has published late-stage data for the RNAi therapeutic in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating its efficacy in ATTR-cardiomyopathy.
With the potential FDA approval of an MDMA-based therapy for PTSD on the horizon, biopharma stakeholders are eyeing psychedelics with fresh anticipation.
High multiplexed patient-centric assays could reduce patient burden
Protocol design optimization and timely engagement of regulators are the crux of optimized, patient-centric clinical trials.
In a cooling job market, companies often can’t match job seekers’ expectations on factors such as salary and remote work.
New platforms are emerging to help biopharma companies fill their human studies more efficiently, but barriers remain to their successful implementation.
While the trial was designed to test safety and not efficacy, patients treated with Araclon Biotech’s experimental ABvac40 vaccine saw a 38% drop in disease progression compared to placebo.
The company’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Arexvy can elicit similar levels of immune protection in adults aged 50 to 59 as in its approved population, finds results from a late-stage study.
In its most recent round of layoffs this year, the California-based biopharma company is letting go of 350 former Horizon Therapeutics staff whose roles overlap with existing positions at Amgen.
FDA
The oncology company added a fifth indication for its isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 inhibitor, securing the greenlight for treating patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic syndromes.