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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
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Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Shares of Enochian Biosciences plunged more than 36% after the Justice Department announced company cofounder Serhat Gumrukçu was arrested in a sordid 2018 murder-for-hire scheme.
A recent study published in Nature Medicine found that people who were vaccinated had a slightly decreased risk of getting Long COVID six months after their initial diagnosis.
Flagship Pioneering introduced ProFound Therapeutics, a new company that leverages previously undiscovered human proteins to develop treatments for many diseases.
Invectys is one of only a few companies investigating HLA-G, a natural immune checkpoint inhibitor, for solid tumors.
At the start of Takeda’s fiscal year on April 1, Ramona Sequeira and Julie Kim stepped into new positions on the company’s executive leadership team and became role models for women.
When the two new sites are up and running, Eli Lilly predicted the project will create up to 500 new jobs - with the expectation of four indirect jobs for each full-time position, based on industry data.
Germany’s CureVac is partnering with Belgium’s myNEO to identify specific cancer antigens in order to develop novel mRNA immunotherapies for cancer vaccines.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
Antios Therapeutics received a clinical hold on its Hepatitis B virus (HBV) combinatorial therapy from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday.
San Francisco-based Terremoto Biosciences launched with $75 million in Series A financing from OrbiMed and Third Rock Ventures as it develops highly targeted, small-molecule medicines.