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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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BrainVectis will begin assessing a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease in France after receiving clearance from health authorities there to conduct a Phase I/II study.
A day after Pfizer and partner BioNTech submitted an EUA request to the FDA for their booster shot targeting Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, the regulator appears close to approving it.
Alcon announced it is buying out Aerie Pharmaceuticals for about $770 million to gain access to the ophthalmic pharma firm’s open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension treatments.
Shares of Foghorn are tumbling after the FDA placed a full clinical hold on a Phase I dose escalation study that had already been subject to a partial hold following a patient death.
A combination of Novo Nordisk’s CagriSema injection for overweight people with type II diabetes resulted in a 15.6% body weight reduction compared to taking the drugs individually.
Elon Musk has reportedly gotten in touch with Synchron, a company developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) device, to explore potential investment opportunities, according to a report by Reuters.
Across the United States, Clusters of innovation have created self-sustaining ecosystems that are shaping the future of the life sciences industry - and driving economic growth.
Tessa Therapeutics has tapped former Takeda executive Thomas Willemsen as the man to take its CAR-T portfolio forward.
In a letter to shareholders, RegeneRx provided a pipeline update for investors Monday, outlining plans to potentially move forward with a new asset in light of development delays.
Pfizer is to report initial data from a randomized trial of the second course of therapy of paxlovid in COVID-19 rebound patients by Sept. 2023.