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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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Bayer has terminated a two year-old partnership with Atara to develop off-the-shelf T-cell immunotherapy for high mesothelin-expressing tumors.
Anyone who has dealt with inflammatory skin conditions is familiar with what seems like a near-constant itch. That could become a thing of the past if ASLAN Pharma has something to say about it.
Closing out the month of May, plenty of companies presented or announced clinical trial updates and news. Here’s a look.
BioSpace sat down with Maritza Gamboa, the associate director of talent acquisition at Intellia Therapeutics, to find out how to identify and avoid scam job offers.
Pfizer with Headlands Research plans to launch new clinical trial sites in areas that have highly diverse populations.
The FDA has a few target action dates for the end of the month, although PDUFA dates can sometimes seem like a moving target.
Life sciences organizations and companies strengthen their leadership teams and boards with these Movers & Shakers.
Zealand Pharma shared positive top-line results for its second Phase III clinical trial of its congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) drug, dasiglucagon, in pediatric patients.
Janssen’s Tremfya, an IL-23 inhibitor, is showing an ability to separate itself from AbbVie’s Skyrizi in preventing the activation of cells that drive inflammation.
On Thursday, Mersana announced that the FDA granted an orphan drug designation to one of its lead assets, XMT-2056, which is intended to treat gastric cancer.