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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.
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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.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
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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An FDA advisory committee will meet to review J&J and Legend Biotech’s supplemental BLA for Carvykti for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients who have undergone at least one prior line of therapy.
In a Phase I/II trial, an 11-year-old boy gradually regained hearing—eventually reaching normal range for some frequencies at 30 days—following treatment with Eli Lilly’s dual adeno-associated viral vector-delivered gene therapy.
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This week, Lori, Greg and Tyler discuss the first surge of IPO activity this year plus gene therapy pricing,
The Danish pharma has signed a collaboration and license agreement with Swiss biotech EraCal Therapeutics to access a novel candidate for controlling appetite and body weight.
After showing some unfavorable results for its data, AC Immune on Monday announced it will be getting back its Alzheimer’s disease candidates from Roche’s Genentech.
Johnson & Johnson exceeded fourth-quarter earnings estimates, reporting nearly $21.4 billion in revenue, as its pharma business faces a patent cliff with Stelara competition entering the market.
The French drugmaker is buying California-based biotech Inhibrx to gain access to its clinical-stage drug candidate for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, as it tries winning over investors with potential blockbusters.
Although the FDA did not outright say there is a causal secondary malignancy relationship, it asked BMS, Gilead, J&J and Novartis to add warnings to the labels of six CAR-T therapies noting the potential risks.
Novartis spin-off Sandoz will make an upfront cash payment for the entire Cimerli ophthalmology franchise, including inventories, software and sales and reimbursement teams.