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        Pivotal results from uniQure’s gene therapy for Huntington’s disease have brought new light to patients who have known only disappointment in recent years—but one expert worries that communication of the results is creating “false expectations.”
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        M&A is back, the S&P XBI is rising again, a biotech pulled off an IPO and positive data is pulling in investors again. This may just be the industry’s new normal.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        AI is changing the nature of leadership in biopharma. Here’s how executives can not only adapt, but lead the way.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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        Like they say about the weather in Iceland, if you don’t like an action taken by the new administration, wait five minutes; it’ll probably change. The markets, it seems, don’t react kindly to that kind of policymaking.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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        Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson are joining fellow Big Pharma peers in upping their investment in AI, with Lilly looking to create the industry’s ‘most powerful supercomputer’ and J&J building a virtual operating room.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        As third-quarter earnings continue to roll out, Novartis makes headlines with the second biggest acquisition of the year; Novartis’ CEO also downplayed the impact of Big Pharma pricing deals with the Trump administration; Regeneron continued the trend of dropping cell therapy assets; BioSpace takes a look at how the FDA is functioning mid-shutdown.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        While the FDA continues to put out guidance documents and approve drugs, some companies are already reporting delays in dealings with the agency, while insiders warn of falling morale and a negative perception from the rest of the biopharma world.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Mergers and acquisitions are not just for Big Pharma. A new report from Leerink Partners takes a stab at identifying the small- to mid-cap pharmas best prepared to bolster their pipelines with a buyout.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Vas Narasimhan confirmed that Novartis is having weekly discussions with the Trump administration on drug pricing, but a deal has not yet been reached.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Phase I/II data for rese-cel point to its therapeutic potential in systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis, as well as other autoimmune conditions. 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        BioMarin no longer expects to hit its $4 billion revenue target by 2027, citing various market factors such as impending competition for achondroplasia therapy Voxzogo and the divestment of the gene therapy Roctavian.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Phase III data for dapirolizumab pegol presented at the 2025 conference of the American College of Rheumatology showed quality-of-life benefits in systemic lupus erythematosus that could see Biogen go head-to-head with GSK and AstraZeneca in a blockbuster space.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The coming flu season is the clearest indication yet that biopharma’s long-standing assumptions about predictability, prevention and portfolio structure are no longer guaranteed.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Executives from Eli Lilly, Merck and other companies foresee the FDA’s new onshoring proposal being anything from a bureaucratic waste of time to a transformative program that will eliminate inspection-related complete response letters.