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Just a few days after FDA Commissioner Makary resigned, ally Tracy Beth Høeg is also leaving the agency. Her departure comes amid reports of tension over a commissioner’s voucher for Sanofi’s diabetes drug.
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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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SARS-CoV-2 typically enters the body via the nose or mouth. Because of this, many think a nasal spray vaccine would do a better job of preventing COVID-19 infection and cutting transmission than an injection.
On Wednesday, Swiss women’s health company ObsEva announced that it is dropping linzagolix, its leading candidate for uterine fibroids.
Only weeks after announcing a new chief executive officer and chief medical officer, Editas Medicine reported promising early data for its Phase I/II RUBY trial of EDIT-301 for severe sickle cell disease (SCD).
Pfizer and BioNTech initiated a Phase II trial of an enhanced COVID-19 vaccine while fending off lawsuits against CureVac and Alnylam over their technology.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. announced that Dr. Maky Zangenah, DDS, has been named co-Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Sekhri has risen to the title of CEO at vTv Therapeutics.
Teva expects to finalize and complete the documentation needed in the coming weeks, followed by a nationwide sign-on process for states, subdivisions and Native American tribes.
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the European Commission (EC) approved RINVOQ® (upadacitinib 45 mg [induction dose] and 15 mg and 30 mg [maintenance doses]) for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who have had an inadequate response, lost response or were intolerant to either conventional therapy or a biologic agent.
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBIO) (BridgeBio), today announced positive interim results from PROPEL 2, a Phase 2 trial of the investigational therapy infigratinib in children with achondroplasia.
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France have found that the COVID-19 virus enters the brain through nanotubes to cause debilitating neurologic symptoms.
Martin Shkreli, commonly known as the “Pharma Bro,” announced Monday he has cofounded Druglike, a Web3 drug discovery software platform, despite a lifetime ban from the pharma industry.