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After a sluggish 2025, biotech IPOs have roared back to life. Fueled by resilient stock performances and improving market sentiment, the total number of public debuts so far this year has already eclipsed 2025’s total.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
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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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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Seagen, Inc. and NovoCure Ltd. have each announced plans to open new facilities in the coming years, expanding local employment opportunities and respective presences in the biotech industry.
RMAT designation means a faster, more streamlined approval process and frequent communication with FDA representatives. The FDA recently granted RMAT Designations to both Direct Bio and AlloVir.
Biopharma and life sciences organizations from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
The U.S. FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee is holding a meeting on April 21, 2022, to discuss safety findings across the entire class of PI3K inhibitors for hematological cancers.
Arcturus Therapeutics announced positive Phase III trial results for its mRNA vaccine candidate, ARCT-154, intended to prevent COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
AbbVie, Novartis, Pfizer and other biopharma companies are ramping up support to Ukraine in the face of the continuing Russian invasion.
Gilead Sciences scored a legal victory regarding fraudulent HIV reimbursements, securing a court order against a number of clinics, labs and prescribers in Florida that were engaging in the alleged fraud.
The company brings to the arena bioengineered tissues that repair, restore or replace an organ or tissue functioning, called Tissue Therapeutics.
The FDA has issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) for TV-46000/mdc-IRM (risperidone extended-release injectable suspension for subcutaneous use) to Teva Pharmaceuticals and MedinCell.
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts, business leaders and government agencies are starting to prep for the next potential pandemic.