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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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With several recent milestones, Intellia Therapeutics is setting a solid foundation for gene editing in rare diseases with an eye toward broader patient populations.
Ravi B. Parikh discussed how new FDA guidance on accelerated approval for cancer drugs will affect the space.
Nearly eight months after leaving his post as head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson, Mathai Mammen has found a new job as CEO of cancer focused FogPharma.
GSK will help commercialize Brexafemme (ibrexafungerp), currently approved to treat vaginal yeast infections and vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC).
BIIB080 successfully reduced tau pathology in patients with early-stage disease across all six brain regions analyzed.
Proximity bias, a term that describes how managers tend to favor those they see in person, may force remote and hybrid workers to work harder to keep up with their in-person counterparts.
The RSV race has lost one high-profile contender as Janssen announced it is discontinuing the Phase III EVERGREEN trial studying its RSV vaccine candidate.
A federal court sided in favor of Vanda Pharmaceuticals in its Freedom of Information Act case against the FDA regarding the CRL for its sleep drug label expansion.
In an earnings call Wednesday, bluebird bio revealed it is unlikely to meet its first-quarter goal to submit a Biologics License Application for sickle cell disease (SCD) gene therapy lovo-cel.
There have already been several big biotech licensing deals in Q1. See inside for some of this quarter’s biggest licensing deals — from the surprising and pivotal to the lucrative and consequential.