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Data released by the FDA show that Revolution Medicine’s newly approved pancreatic cancer drug underperformed in a large subgroup of patients, but analysts say the biotech still has a clear winner.
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After Abogen Biosciences’ COVID shot missed the commercial window, the big question was whether its mRNA technology could create value beyond vaccines. Novartis’ $575 million upfront commitment is the clearest external validation yet of that broader therapeutic potential.
Leveraging recently proposed regulatory flexibilities, the gene-editing sector is working to cut R&D costs and unlock indications that were previously economically unviable, according to a new playbook published by the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine.
BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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With an internal non-opioid program nearing approval, Viatris is picking up Pacira BioSciences for a broader pain portfolio and the associated commercial infrastructure.
Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
With the patent court siding with Halozyme, Merck faces restrictions on a product that won approval in Europe last year.
Argenx shares have fallen more than 13% after the surprise futility finding, which overshadowed a mid-stage celiac disease win for a separate asset acquired in the company’s $2.2 billion Forte Biosciences buy.
After one patient death prompted an FDA hold this spring, Newron Pharmaceuticals has now shared that a total of four fatalities have been recorded among participants receiving its schizophrenia candidate. A fifth death was recorded among those taking the placebo.
For the second time in a week, Zealand Pharma’s weight loss pipeline has delivered mixed results, this time in a Phase 2 trial for the Roche-partnered asset petrelintide.
Matchpoint’s lead asset is the oral T cell modulator MPT-062, which the biotech plans to advance into clinical development for autoimmune and inflammatory conditions next year.
In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Jennifer McMahon, partner at Seroba and Joey Mason, venture partner at Claret Capital. We dig into how venture debt buys time when equity can’t and how Europe’s funding gaps, tranching habits and slower urgency shape who uses it well.
The Takeda spinout showed that a high dose of solengepras can shorten the periods during which difficult Parkinson’s disease symptoms like involuntary movements and sleepiness.
ArriVent BioPharma’s Phase 3 lung cancer trial was clouded by stronger-than-expected data for patients receiving chemotherapy, prompting analysts to pivot focus to a late-stage test of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor in a different type of lung cancer and to the biotech’s antibody-drug conjugate pipeline.