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European pharma companies splashed billions of dollars into the U.S. biopharma sector in a matter of days, but there are differing views on whether the activity represents the rise of a new buyer class or a quirk of timing.
Three pharma CEOs joined the $30 million compensation club in 2025 but Eli Lilly’s David Ricks exceeded his nearest peer by more than $4 million.
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After years of suffering from a bear market and more than 14 months of geopolitical turmoil shaking the macroenvironment, biotech appears to be moving on.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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The contract manufacturer plans to expand its U.S. footprint with a former Roche facility in Vacaville, California, which Lonza contends is one of the largest biologics manufacturing facilities in the world by volume.
A string of rejections prompt some to look beyond research roles in the biopharma industry as they seek to launch a career.
Bristol Myers Squibb secured another late-phase immuno-oncology victory Wednesday, showing that the combination of Opdivo and Yervoy improved overall survival in a patient population served by rival checkpoint inhibitors from AstraZeneca and Roche.
Two days after winning FDA approval, Orchard Therapeutics on Wednesday provided its U.S. launch plans for metachromatic leukodystrophy gene therapy Lenmeldy, which has a wholesale acquisition cost of $4.25 million for the one-time treatment.
Under the European Union’s proposed regulations, companies will have data protection for at least seven-and-a-half years preventing competitors from accessing their product data.
Novo Nordisk’s investment of more than half a billion dollars is meant to expand its production capabilities in China and help it meet the global drug demand.
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Takeda on Tuesday secured another label expansion for the kinase inhibitor, this time in the first-line setting for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
President Joe Biden has made drug pricing a cornerstone of his campaign, but former President Donald Trump also plans to target drugmakers if he reenters the White House.
The FDA took center stage last week as it approved the first-ever MASH therapy and considered additional approvals for CAR-T therapies, whose safety the agency has been investigating since last year.
The past year saw the slowest year-over-year growth in biopharma salaries in the past five years, according to the BioSpace 2024 Life Sciences Salary Report.