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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
Molecular glue degraders are gaining traction in the clinic as well as funding from Big Pharma, with their potential to treat previously “undruggable” cancers and immunological diseases. Here are five clinical programs worth keeping an eye on.
Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
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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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The Swiss pharma’s shareholders on Friday approved spinning off the generics and biosimilars division, with plans to launch at least five additional biologic drugs.
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The FDA will finish September with three action dates and one of the year’s most highly-anticipated advisory committee meetings.
The two biotech companies announced initial public offering pricing Thursday, respectively, with shares beginning trading Friday and valued at more than $560 million cumulatively.
While achieving FDA approvals in rare cancers such as multiple myeloma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Karyopharm’s cancer drug has a variety of scientific and market hurdles to clear.
Following a controversial Rett Syndrome trial last year, Anavex Life Sciences’ blarcamesine has claimed another clinical victory—this time in an Alzheimer’s disease Phase IIb/III study.
After nearly seven years, the company’s rare diseases arm Alexion has reached a settlement in an investors’ lawsuit over alleged unethical sales practices for its hemoglobinuria therapy Soliris.
Bristol Myers Squibb’s pipeline cuts, announced Thursday during its R&D Day, include a mid-stage drug candidate for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and an anti-TIGIT solid tumor program.
As researchers face delayed project timelines and inflated costs, industry leaders are offering an alternative option for sourcing nonhuman primates.
The FDA has issued more than 30 guidance documents related to drug development so far this year. BioSpace takes a closer look at six of them.
AlveoGene has licensed the U.K. Respiratory Gene Therapy Consortium’s InGenuiTy platform for all uses excluding the CTFR gene, which is already licensed to Boehringer Ingelheim for cystic fibrosis.