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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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Following promising results in major depressive disorder, Alto Neuroscience on Tuesday reported positive data for its investigational drug ALTO-100 in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Despite filing respective lawsuits challenging the program, AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb have decided to participate in the first round of price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Italian pharma company is acquiring what was once one of the hottest stocks in the biotech sector, just months after the FDA rejected Intercept’s non-alcoholic steatohepatitis candidate.
Shares were up over 60% in premarket trading on news that the company’s anti-FcRn antibody exhibited dose-dependent reductions in IgG levels, drivers of inflammation in many autoimmune diseases.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need for local production of vaccines. Now, German pharma company BioNTech has said it will start manufacturing vaccines in Africa.
The company’s olezarsen cleared a late-stage study, eliciting a sharp reduction in triglyceride levels in patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome. Ionis plans to submit a New Drug Application to the FDA.
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The FDA on Monday approved the Canadian biopharma’s liquid antibiotic metronidazole, an alternative for patients who are unable to use pills or injections.
The Japanese multinational pharma is pledging up to $580 million in a development and commercialization deal with AcuraStem for the latter’s PIKFYVE program for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The Swiss pharma is one step closer to bringing Lutathera into the front-line setting, with data from the Phase III NETTER-2 study showing that the radiotherapy met its primary endpoint.
The company’s experimental drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reduced the risk of death by 49% compared to the largest U.S. database of previous ALS therapy trials.