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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
Saol Therapeutics is the latest biotech to resubmit for approval of a drug rejected under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, following REGENXBIO and Replimune.
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.
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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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Hard times are forcing biopharma companies to extend their runways as they try to eke out every cent of value from their capital.
Biopharma and life sciences companies, such as Seraxis, Verily and Vaxart, tap new members to bolster their leadership teams in roles like CMO, CTO, CCO, and more.
Shares of AnaptysBio are down more than 16% after imsidolimab failed to meet the endpoint in a Phase II trial assessing its efficacy in hidradenitis suppurativa.
Provention Bio secured a $125 million loan from Hercules Capital that will support operations and the potential launch of the company’s type 1 diabetes treatment, teplizumab.
Novo Nordisk has entered into an agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics for $1.1 billion. Forma’s lead development candidate, etavopivat, is being developed for sickle cell disease.
On Wednesday, the FDA authorized new Omicron-specific booster shots for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines despite a lack of human data.
A High Court judge in London granted AstraZeneca an injunction, temporarily blocking a former executive from joining rival pharma GSK.
Fiona H. Marshall has been tapped as Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research president after Jay Bradner’s exit, while Tim Demuth will succeed Malte Peters for MorphoSys.
The problem of intellectual property theft is greater than most biopharma executives realize, but the real issue is that companies are protecting only a fraction of their IP.
Sanofi announced FDA approval of Xenpozyme for adult and pediatric patients with the rare genetic disease acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, often referred to as Niemann-Pick disease.