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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.
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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Eisai and Biogen’s BLA for lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease received FDA Priority Review with a target action date of January 6, 2023, while Roche’s lymphoma drug scored the same designation.
CureVac has filed a lawsuit against BioNTech and two of its subsidiaries for allegedly infringing on its intellectual property rights over mRNA technology used in the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Phase II study, conducted in the Netherlands, evaluated the single-dose ANEB-001 in treating healthy participants affected by THC. Anebulo plans to file an IND with the FDA by the end of 2022.
As the calendar pages continue to turn, the FDA has a slew of novel drugs awaiting approval, several of which are likely to become game-changers for patients and key assets for companies.
The FDA lifted the clinical hold on Dyne Therapeutics’ clinical study of DYNE-251 in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients amenable to skipping exon 51. A Phase I/II trial is expected by mid-year.
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be under control, it’s clear that it’s not over, with the rise of more subvariants. Read on for more details.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion rights activists are calling for the FDA to consider making abortion medication Mifeprex an over-the-counter option for patients.
The transaction, expected to close in the third quarter of this year, includes TeneoTwo’s proposed drug for relapsed and refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma TNB-486.
Seagen announced positive data from its Phase II trial in colorectal cancer, and the FDA provided positive feedback supporting a Phase IIIb trial for ANeuroTech’s MDD drug.
The FDA lifted its clinical hold on Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Phase I/II clinical trial of VX-880, a pancreatic islet cell replacement therapy for people with Type I Diabetes (TID).