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Early-stage financing rounds are on track to hit their lowest dollar value in years as funders continue to eschew risky investments, experts told BioSpace.
A mostly black box since emerging with more than a billion dollars in hand, Xaira Therapeutics is slowly pulling back the curtain, revealing plans to find partners and validate its pipeline.
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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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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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With several of the first 10 selected drugs facing patent expirations and generic competition, the drug price negotiations dictated by the IRA may not greatly affect revenues. But that could change quickly.
Former Agilent Technologies executive Jacob Thaysen will take the reins later this month replacing CEO Francis deSouza, who stepped down in June following a proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn.
The company Tuesday posted Sandoz’s financial performance for the first half of 2023, as it looks to secure the approval of shareholders this month for the generics and biosimilars spin-off.
The Swiss pharmaceutical company filed a suit Friday joining a growing group of legal complaints by Big Pharma seeking to block the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program.
The companies are moving closer to traditional approval for the antibody-drug conjugate Tivdak, which met its primary endpoint for overall survival in an interim analysis.
$27.8B Amgen-Horizon deal gets FTC clearance with restrictions; the White House names first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations; Sage Therapeutics axes 40% of staff.
The vaccine was effective against previous COVID-19 variants but lacked efficacy against new ones, the company announced Thursday, leaving the booster no commercially viable options.
Under a consent order agreement announced Friday, Amgen is prohibited from bundling any of its products with Horizon’s Tepezza or Krystexxa, allaying the FTC’s primary concerns.
The antibody-drug conjugate will be pitted against chemotherapy in a heavily treated breast cancer subpopulation, with hopes of challenging AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s blockbuster Enhertu.
Two Democratic senators on Thursday sent a letter to the companies’ CEOs informing them that they have until Sept. 15 to disclose the application processes for their insulin assistance programs.