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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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The biopharma world - and markets - spent Thursday evening reacting after the FDA gave the green light to only its third-ever drug for ALS, Amylyx’s Relyvrio.
This week, researchers published results from studies on treatments in lung disease, Alzheimer’s and various cancers. Here’s a look at that and more.
Life science companies made adjustments to their leadership teams with multiple appointments for chief commercial officers, chief business officers and more in this week’s Movers & Shakers.
Two rare disease companies - Idera Pharmaceuticals and Aceragen - are merging to pursue the common goal of an FDA approval that could come as early as 2024.
Eisai and Biogen announced positive data from a Phase III trial in Alzheimer’s of its drug lecanemab. Still, questions remain about the drug’s implications for the future of Alzheimer’s treatment.
Novo Nordisk struck a licensing deal Thursday with Ventus Therapeutics valued at up to $700 million to develop and commercialize peripherally-restricted NLRP3 inhibitors.
The FDA has approved Regeneron and Sanofi’s Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adult patients with prurigo nodularis, making it the first drug approved for this indication.
New data from Axcella, PepGen, Dystrogen and Galecto are showing promise in challenging diseases, including NASH, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myelofibrosis.
PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals reported its collaboration partner, SFJ Pharmaceuticals Group, informed the company it would need to return the rights to its lead program.
Ordaōs and NonExomics announced a research pact Wednesday to develop mini-proteins, called miniPROs, for three specific difficult-to-target rare cancers.