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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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I-Mab quietly announced that its partner AbbVie is ending a Phase IB trial on lemzoparlimab for two types of cancers, despite a $2 billion deal inked in 2020.
All other ongoing and pending studies of Sanofi’s amcenestrant, including the early-stage breast cancer trial AMEERA-6, will also be discontinued.
BioSpace spoke with industry executives and investors about the current economic situation in the biotech industry and sourced tips on how leaders can weather the downturn.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation inked a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s foreign and health ministries to expand their partnerships revolving around public health.
Novavax seeks EUA for COVID-19 Booster, a 100-year-old TB vaccine may protect against the disease and public health officials struggle with fall planning.
Weeks after AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo were able to move the bar in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer with Enhertu, Gilead is answering that challenge with Trodelvy.
Clene Nanomedicine’s CNM-Au8 demonstrated surprising improvements in some MS patients, despite the study being halted early due to COVID-19.
Proceeds from the fund activities will be used to back Senda’s proprietary programmable medicines platform and advance its projects to clinical trial stages.
The FDA has accepted the sNDA for AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza and the sBLA for Genentech (Roche)'s for Polivy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Merck and Orna will explore various therapeutic and vaccine programs in a collaboration worth a potential $3.5 billion.