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Leaders at Eli Lilly believe heavy investment in the company’s manufacturing footprint “sets a high standard that newcomers may find challenging to match.” At least one of those newcomers disagrees.
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The medium-sized biopharma is showing off new results from dordaviprone and Zepzelca, both of which were acquired through Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ dealmaking over the last five years.
A February executive order on pharmaceutical price transparency does nothing to change the incentives that keep costs opaque. But drug companies and other stakeholders would reap the benefits of such disclosures.
Nearly two years in with Zurzuvae, Biogen tackles an ‘all of the above market’ to find patients and battle stigma in postpartum depression.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced the publication of its 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report.
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After Emma Walmsley steps down as GSK CEO in January, Vertex Pharma’s Reshma Kewalramani will be the sole female CEO at a top-20 pharma company. Still, there are many prominent women in pharma that could someday break through again.
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The patient, who was being treated with an investigational gene therapy for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, died of acute liver failure, the same complication responsible for the deaths of two boys taking Sarepta’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment Elevidys.
In advance of CMS’ negotiated price for the blood thinner taking effect next year, partners Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer pitched the direct-to-consumer program as a way to allow uninsured, underinsured and self-pay patients to pay less out of pocket.
Sarepta Therapeutics appears to have right-sized itself after laying off over a third of its staff, announcing a significant pipeline shift and adding a black box warning to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys.
The life sciences job market continues to shift. BioSpace’s Q2 2025 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market Report is now available, offering exclusive insights into the latest hiring trends, layoffs, and workforce dynamics across the life sciences industry.
In this episode presented by IQVIA, BioSpace’s head of insights Lori Ellis discusses the evolving role of local qualified persons for pharmacovigilance with Ana Pedro Jesuíno, global head local QPPV network at IQVIA.
In its Q2 earnings call Thursday, Novartis said it is moving quickly to reshore its drug manufacturing operations, but CEO Vas Narasimhan told reporters that for most medicines, it typically takes three to four years to completely relocate production.
In the first six months of 2025, 385 employees resigned from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, compared with under 130 staff during the same period last year.
FDA reviewers flag “discordant results” in a briefing document published ahead of Friday’s advisory committee meeting for the partners’ application for the antipsychotic in post-traumatic stress disorder.
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1 in 5 respondents either have had or do have a fractional role, according to a recent BioSpace poll, and over half are considering it. Two recruitment experts, a fractional worker and an aspiring fractional worker share their insights.