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The U.S. Congress greenlit a historic $315 million in federal ALS research funding for 2026 amid Rare Disease Month, spotlighting biotech progress like VectorY Therapeutics’ first patient dosing in its TDP-43-targeting PIONEER-ALS trial and EverythingALS’ pharma consortia driving biomarker innovations and trial alignment.
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Many scientists-turned-CEOs paradoxically abandon scientific principles when it comes to commercializing their innovations. But applying the scientific method to business decisions can help life science entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls, attract investment and ultimately bring transformative technologies to market.
FDA vouchers are normally a coveted prize for biopharma companies, but a surprise rejection for Disc Medicine’s rare disease drug has biopharma reconsidering.
PitchBook’s 2025 biopharma VC analysis clocked $33.8 billion in capital dispatched in 2025, mainly to companies with later-stage programs ready to roll into the clinic.
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The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine is part of a larger communications crisis unfolding at the agency over the past nine months that has also ensnarled Sarepta, Capricor, uniQure and many more.
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Data suggests divarasib could be more potent than already approved KRAS inhibitors from Amgen and Mirati, but the study’s authors caution against cross-trial comparisons.
The consumer healthcare brand is joining the growing biosimilars market in the U.S. with its new subsidiary Cordavis, which will market a Humira biosimilar as its first product.
To successfully compete against one another and Big Pharma for top talent, biotech companies need to do a better job of selling themselves.
Spurred by an “inadvertent” disclosure, Roche’s Genentech on Wednesday released interim and immature overall survival findings for its anti-TIGIT antibody tiragolumab in non-small cell lung cancer.
Under the $1.4 billion Project NextGen initiative, Regeneron was awarded a $326 million grant for its preventive monoclonal antibody, while Johnson & Johnson got $10 million to bankroll startups.
The RET kinase inhibitor showed “statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements” in progression-free survival compared to Exelixis’ Cabometyx and Sanofi’s Caprelsa.
The biotech’s experimental vaccine has shown a neutralizing response to XBB sublineages of COVID-19, which currently dominate new cases in the U.S. and Europe.
As competition for life sciences talent peaks, BioSpace has undertaken research to determine what employers can do to ensure they don’t lose out on talent they actually want to hire and retain.
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