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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.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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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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Real estate development firm Sterling Bay launches life sciences division starting with Lincoln Yards, a 320,000 square foot site on the Chicago River.
The new financing will help the Boston-based biotech accelerate the development of its siRNA-based therapies for immuno-dermatology indications.
Seamless Therapeutics launched Wednesday with $12.5 million in seed financing to develop its programmable recombinases for gene editing.
In spite of a tumultuous economy, many life science companies have started the year off strong. With plans to expand its team and pipeline in the coming year, Takeda is one of them.
Job hopping– frequently changing jobs, typically within a short period of time – gained popularity with the onset of COVID-19 and is still popular now. Here’s what recruiters think about job hopping.
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals has ended the only clinical trials evaluating its GoCAR-T cell product in combination with rimiducid following serious safety concerns.
Mediar Therapeutics added another $85 million to its coffers Wednesday to take its first-in-class fibrosis therapies to clinic.
Jounce Therapeutics has received an unsolicited and non-binding acquisition proposal from Concentra Biosciences, looking to buy 100% of Jounce’s equity at a per-share price of $1.80 in cash.
Weeks after the FDA rejected Veru’s Emergency Use Authorization bid for sabizabulin in COVID-19, the company announced plans to continue with late-stage development of the drug.
CytoDyn has spent the past two years under siege. In an exclusive interview, Cyrus Arman, president, told BioSpace how the company is looking to turn the page.