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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.
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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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If cell and gene therapy makers are going to achieve their mission to improve patients’ lives, the industry must come together to share information across stakeholders, from regulators to manufacturers to payers.
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Pfizer’s Paxlovid racks up a rare trial miss, Medicago and GSK publish positive data for their plant-based particle vaccine and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals touts strong potential in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.
Life Science industries are seeing massive financial fluctuations in how they’re handling the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is some optimism of a recovery by biopharma executives.
Biogen is bolstering its multiple sclerosis (MS) pipeline through a licensing agreement with Maine-based MedRhythms for its investigational digital therapeutic, MR-004.
The U.S. SEC continues to tighten the screws on Chinese companies, adding more than 80 companies to its expanding list of companies that might be dropped from U.S. stock exchanges.
May has been fruitful for research into the prevention and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the mechanisms behind early symptoms and potential treatments.
Despite having infinitely better global communications, exact figures are hard to come by for COVID-19 fatalities. Here’s a look at that story and more COVID-19 news.
Despite a growing product revenue, Beigene reported a net loss of $434.4 million for the first quarter of 2022, as well as updates to its audit from the SEC.
The FDA has extended the review period for Myfembree, following the supplemental New Drug Application from Pfizer and Myovant. Here’s more about this news.
We spoke with Alison Senkovich O’Sullivan, Senior Director of Human Resources at Athersys, about how to ace an interview and what candidates can do to prepare.
Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine is now limited to certain individuals ages 18 years and up after the FDA downgraded its emergency use authorization (EUA).