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        Amid a season of regulatory and scientific advances, experts reveal a culture of data hoarding among cell and gene therapy developers that is reinforcing fragmentation, stalling innovation and delaying access to treatments.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Earlier this summer the FDA asked Moderna for more efficacy data on its flu vaccine before it could review an mRNA-based combination shot that targets both influenza and COVID-19. Now, the entire vaccine sector is sizing up a new regulatory world, companies’ next steps uncertain.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Participants in trials of BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ NurOwn filed a Citizens’ Petition with the FDA earlier this month seeking a new review of the stem cell therapy that was rejected in 2022 based on real-world data and 90% survival in an expanded access program.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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        High-level overall survival results from the TROPION-Lung01 Phase III trial, which previously met the dual primary endpoint of progression-free survival, numerically favoured datopotamab deruxtecan compared to docetaxel in the overall trial population of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer treated with at least one prior line of therapy.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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        After Emma Walmsley steps down as GSK CEO in January, Vertex Pharma’s Reshma Kewalramani will be the sole female CEO at a top-20 pharma company. Still, there are many prominent women in pharma that could someday break through again.
    
        
    
        
    
        
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        Generate:Biomedicines’ Nicole Clouse is one of the key legal minds trying to understand who owns what AI creates. The answers are critical to the future of biotech.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        If the trend holds, IQVIA expects 2025 deal volume between Chinese and multinational companies to easily eclipse the 100 agreements signed in 2024.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        While Truist Securities analysts said the results from the ATTAIN-2 trial leave “room for competition,” they also pointed to a manufacturing advantage that could unlock a “double-digit billion dollar opportunity” for Eli Lilly.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The MIT professor of management, who already sits on the CDC’s revamped immunization advisory committee, is a known skeptic of vaccines, particularly mRNA technology.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Based on new data, argenx expects to file for the expansion of Vyvgart’s label into patients with generalized myasthenia gravis who are negative for antibodies against the AChR marker—an indication William Blair analysts called the broadest option in this disease space.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The White House has denied reports that the government could soon ban COVID-19 vaccines, noting that in the absence of an official announcement, “any discussion about HHS policy should be dismissed as baseless speculation.”
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Appia Bio’s shutdown continues an unfortunate trend this year that has seen biotech closures nearly every month.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Closely watched data from Eli Lilly and Viking Therapeutics this month have reignited the discussion around oral weight-loss drugs—and their ultimate place within the anti-obesity medication market.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        LB Pharma will test the IPO market to seek funding for a Phase III-ready schizophrenia asset.
    
        
    
        
    
        
     
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
