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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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Orion announced that it will be focusing on pain and oncology going forward. As a result, 32 working professionals within the company will be terminated, although six of those will be offered different positions.
Oxurion NV’s proposed drug for diabetic macular edema failed to demonstrate efficacy on key endpoints based on top line results from its Phase II trial.
LogicBio Therapeutics has received the green light to continue dosing participants in its Phase I/II Sunrise trial, following a clinical hold placed by the FDA due to adverse events in pediatric patients.
Athira Pharma announced the duration of its open-label study of fosgonimeton for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been increased from six months to eighteen months.
BioNTech continues to build on the success of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and is rapidly expanding its investigational pipeline to include infectious diseases and oncology.
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Moderna is still fending off patent challenges over the lipid nanoparticle delivery system used in its COVID-19 vaccine.
Today’s announcement from Seagen’s board of directors included difficult news regarding Clay Siegall, Ph.D. Until today, Siegall served as Seagen’s President, CEO and Chairman.
Complicated bone fractures take a long while to heal. Bone Therapeutics S.A. is developing a cell therapy product that speeds bone regeneration and just may solve that problem.
ImmunoGen, which is developing Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancer, is on a hiring spree. The company is looking to hire for more than 200 positions by the end of 2022.