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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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Cassava Sciences announced top-line results Wednesday from a 12-month interim analysis of its Alzheimer’s drug candidate simufilam.
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GlaxoSmithKline Chief Executive Officer Emma Walmsley faces renewed calls for her ouster after Bluebell Capital Partners has taken a £10 million (about $13.7 million) stake in the company.
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FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shots for individuals 65 and over, those at high risk for severe disease and front-line healthcare workers.
On Wednesday, the company said that its adjuvanted protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, dubbed SCB-2019 (CpG 1018/Alum), hit the primary and secondary efficacy endpoints in a Phase II/III clinical trial.
Aurion Biotech is focused on curative and restorative treatments for corneal endothelial disease.
The survey of 20,699 Americans found that the unvaccinated – 35% of respondents – didn’t trust that the vaccines were safe or effective.
The Phase I randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose study will assess the tolerability and safety of the compound PDC-APB when delivered via intramuscular injection.