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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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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
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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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Sensorium Therapeutics, which closed a $30 million Series A Tuesday, is embracing the complexity of neuropsychiatric diseases with nature-inspired psychoactive medicines.
Verve Therapeutics’ base editing program has been forced into a detour after the FDA placed a hold on its investigational new drug application. Beam has also posted its own regulatory update.
Biopharma’s efforts to conquer immunoglobulin A nephropathy were on full display at ASN’s Kidney Week as Ionis, Chinook and Vera all reported positive data.
Eye specialist Oyster Point Pharma announced is being acquired by Viatris Inc. after Oyster’s board of directors unanimously signed off on the deal, Oyster Point announced Monday.
GSKs Blenrep misses the mark in the Phase III DREAMM-3 trial for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), possibly putting the drug’s continued approval at risk.
The only patient in an FDA-sanctioned clinical trial assessing a CRISPR-based therapy for a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy has died, according to study sponsor Cure Rare Disease.
Eli Lilly’s and Boehringer’s Jardiance met its primary outcome in the Phase III EMPA-KIDNEY study, the largest and broadest SGLT2 inhibitor trial in chronic kidney disease.
Akebia Therapeutics has submitted a Formal Dispute Resolution Request with the FDA regarding the rejection of vadadustat in anemia due to chronic kidney disease.
In spite of positive Phase IIb results from a thrombosis prevention trial, Ionis is back on the market for a new partner after Bayer returned the rights to the drug to Ionis.
Sanofi and AstraZeneca won European approval for the first preventative RSV treatment for a broad population of newborns and infants.