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After a sluggish 2025, biotech IPOs have roared back to life. Fueled by resilient stock performances and improving market sentiment, the total number of public debuts so far this year has already eclipsed 2025’s total.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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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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Capricor announced positive final data from the HOPE-2 trial of its drug candidate. It showed a slowing of disease progression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.
Esker Therapeutics tapped Martin Babler to helm the company after founding CEO June Lee has stepped away to pursue other opportunities.
There are roughly 750 sales representatives for Amarin at present, which the company intends to whittle down to 300 as it adopts a more digital approach to marketing.
Aside from the fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, other court-related cases are taking place, including between Takeda and AbbVie over cancer drug, Lupron.
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A day after the FDA authorized a COVID-19 booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee voted in support.
The United States has seen companies launching left and right. Check out the top 10 biopharma Series A rounds in the U.S. so far this year.
Study: Adoptive cell transfer of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (ACT-TILs) is more effective in patients who have not been treated with checkpoint inhibitors than in those who have undergone one or more therapies.
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The approval is based on its Phase III REACH3 trial, which evaluated Jakafi versus the best available therapy for treating chronic GVHD after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.