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In its 2025 full year and fourth-quarter earnings call, Merck executives touted the merits of recent deals and what CEO Robert Davis called “probably the broadest and widest pipeline we’ve had in years.”
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After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
AstraZeneca’s $15 billion pledge to its China operations highlights the country’s advantages. But other regions are also hoping to host more clinical studies.
With Lykos’ regulatory failure now squarely in the rearview mirror, Compass Pathways and Definium are leading what one analyst suspects will be “a very big year for psychedelics.”
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Phacilitate’s annual event dawns as cell and gene therapies reach a new tipping point: the science has hit new heights just as regulatory and government policies spark momentum and frustration.
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The IPO window is starting to crack open this year, with Metagenomi and ArriVent making their offerings ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
The multimillion-dollar collaboration will develop small molecule drugs against undisclosed targets.
The patient deaths were deemed unrelated to Vertex’s investigational islet cell therapy, but the study will be halted while regulatory authorities and an independent data monitoring committee review the findings.
The state must submit additional information about the drugs it intends to import before the first shipments are sent to the U.S.
The therapeutic targets of many of our top startups are also reflected in recent big biopharma acquisitions and partnerships.
In a major pivot, Allogene Therapeutics will no longer focus on two of its studies testing blood cancer therapy cema-cel in an effort to extend its financial runway into 2026.
While initial public offering activity was light in 2023, the new year has recorded the first IPO plan—from California-based CG Oncology.
Eli Lilly on Thursday announced the rollout of a new digital healthcare platform to streamline consumer access to its weight-loss drug Zepbound and other medications.
With recent scientific advances, milestone approvals and increased dealmaking, the future of treatment for neurological diseases looks brighter—but continued investment, collaboration and patient-focused efforts are key.
The two agreements announced Thursday will allow AbbVie to leverage Umoja Biopharma’s VivoVec delivery platform, which enables patients’ cells to produce their own cancer-fighting CAR-T cells.