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Biopharma companies won’t fully capture the benefits of AI unless they reorganize their R&D units, according to McKinsey.
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Even as FDA approvals for biologic therapies fell in the first half of 2026, regulatory experts are optimistic about a turnaround in the rare disease space after the departure of key leaders at the agency. Still, there will continue to be tension between science and politics.
Early-stage financing rounds are on track to hit their lowest dollar value in years as funders continue to eschew risky investments, experts told BioSpace.
A mostly black box since emerging with more than a billion dollars in hand, Xaira Therapeutics is slowly pulling back the curtain, revealing plans to find partners and validate its pipeline.
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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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While Amgen and Mirati are widely viewed as frontrunners to win the first front line approval, analysts—and competitors—say the field is still wide open.
Quotient Therapeutics, co-located in Cambridge, Mass. and Cambridge, U.K., will receive $50 million over two years from Flagship to study somatic genomics with an eye to finding new targets for gene therapies.
The buy brings three small molecules in preclinical development for Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and lysosomal storage diseases into Merck’s pipeline.
The biotech company has bought the global rights to an investigational oral CDK2 inhibitor from Ensem Therapeutics in a licensing agreement valued at up to $1.33 billion if all milestones are met.
The regulator has decided to hold an advisory committee meeting regarding BMS and 2seventy bio’s bid to move the CAR-T cell therapy into earlier lines of treatment, missing its previous target action date of Dec. 16.
Vorasidenib decreased tumor volume by a mean of 2.5% every six months, compared to growth of 13.9% for placebo over the same time span. The candidate is also being tested in a regimen with Keytruda.
As companies clamor for a piece of the antibody-drug conjugate pie, experts pose the question: is it possible to replicate the success of Enhertu?
Bayer’s investigational factor XIa inhibitor asundexian was inferior to BMS’ and Pfizer’s blockbuster blood thinner Eliquis (apixaban) in the Phase III OCEANIC-AF study.
Armed with a pipeline of obesity and diabetes hopefuls, Carmot Therapeutics joins the small group of biotechs to attempt a Nasdaq debut this year.
The U.K.’s conditional marketing authorization for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ gene-edited therapy exa-cel raises some potential safety concerns with the risk of off-target effects.