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Biotechs are benefitting from the AI tech frenzy and inflation, but validated pipelines and careful planning are still key to the recent record-setting IPOs, experts say.
As the industry faces policy changes and significant cuts to federal funding, local ecosystems can bolster companies through innovative resources to sustain growth and keep the U.S. at the center of biomedical innovation.
Over the past decade, Eli Lilly has bought out more biotechs than any of the other top 12 pharmas by revenue—with 10 of those acquisitions arriving just this year.
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FDA veteran Peter Marks will now shape the future of Eli Lilly’s vaccines work after the buys of Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics and Vaccine Company for up to $3.8 billion total.
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With six acquisitions already this year, Eli Lilly’s business development shows no signs of stopping as executives make good on a promise to spend their GLP-1 gains.
Staff at Salt Lake City-based techbio company Recursion recently heard from Jenny and Tim Jones about their challenging family history of familial adenomatous polyposis.
AbbVie is setting up a shot to buy Kestrel Therapeutics down the line, as the biotech doses patients in a Phase 1 trial for the oral pan-KRAS inhibitor KST-6051 in solid tumors.
Topline Phase 3 results of survodutide—licensed to Boehringer Ingelheim from Zealand Pharma—are more comparable to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy than to Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, William Blair analysts said on Tuesday.
Cancer cocktails pairing Moderna’s mRNA-4359 with Merck’s Keytruda and Marengo’s invikafusp alfa with Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy showed promising results, while a complex combination by Agenus and MiNK Therapeutics failed to elicit an overall response.
Weight loss giant Eli Lilly has penned a DNA editing deal with Profluent Bio, continuing its dealmaking spree as well as its commitment to artificial intelligence.
The FDA has renewed calls for Amgen’s Tavneos to be pulled from the market, saying it has discovered new evidence that study personnel doctored the results of the drug’s pivotal study in order to make it look effective.
Executives insist Novartis will return to growth in the second half, but for Q1 2026, generic erosion drove a 5% drop in revenue, including a 46% nosedive for blockbuster heart failure drug Entresto.