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Strong growth in immunology and neurology prompted AbbVie to raise its 2026 outlook and consider future M&A from a position of “ample financial capacity.”
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Altitude Labs, an offshoot of AI-focused techbio Recursion, is teaching scientists to build companies, one founder at a time.
With six acquisitions already this year, Eli Lilly’s business development shows no signs of stopping as executives make good on a promise to spend their GLP-1 gains.
Staff at Salt Lake City-based techbio company Recursion recently heard from Jenny and Tim Jones about their challenging family history of familial adenomatous polyposis.
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Albert Bourla heralded the president’s COVID-19 leadership and Operation Warp Speed initiative as a Nobel Prize–worthy achievement and said that Pfizer stands by the integrity of the data already shared.
In a series of memos last week, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad outlined the FDA’s thinking on the recent limited approvals for updated COVID-19 vaccines.
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he will roll chronic disease programs into a new Administration for a Healthy America.
Novartis and Argo Biopharma go back to January 2024, when the pharma first bet up to $4.165 billion across two RNAi agreements targeting cardiovascular diseases.
Aside from lowering triglyceride levels, Ionis’ olezarsen reduced acute pancreatitis events, an outcome that BMO Capital Markets said could help the asset deliver a “significant first-in-class commercial launch.”
Data from the late-stage MAPLE-HCM study position Cytokinetics’ cardiac myosin inhibitor aficamten as a potential first-line therapy for patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, ahead of a vaccine advisory committee meeting later in September. Meanwhile, deal-making appetite appears healthy, and the weight loss space continues generating clinical data and other news.
Data scientist employment is expected to grow 33.5% from 2024 to 2034 due in part to a growing demand for data analysis, according to new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics findings. Biopharma hotspots were among the top 10 states for employment and pay for this role in 2024.
It can cure deadly diseases, save long-term healthcare costs and transform lives. But the U.S. insurance system still isn’t ready to pay for it.
Blank check deals dwindled after a crazy 2021. Now, biotechs are starting to turn to special purpose acquisition companies again as an easy route to the public markets.