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Biotech is increasingly financed, governed and regulated as though it were a mature pharmaceutical industry rather than a discovery system built around scientific uncertainty. Structural changes are needed to sustain the sector’s strategic innovation.
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Nusano will bring a massive new radioisotope facility in Salt Lake City online by the end of the year, establishing a supply of starting materials for the next generation of radiopharmaceuticals.
Last month, Revolution Medicines’ RAS inhibitor doubled survival in a Phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial. On the biotech’s heels are Immuneering, Actuate Therapeutics, Erasca and more, looking to improve on that result with increased tolerability—and more time for patients.
The recent approval of Regeneron’s Otarmeni underscores the maturation of gene therapies across a range of diseases. Here, BioSpace reviews genetic medicines in development for the central nervous system, retinal, cardiac and neuromuscular diseases.
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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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Tessera Therapeutics announced Thursday that ex-AbbVie executive Michael Severino, M.D. will take the helm of the young biotech.
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced intentions to acquire Sanofi’s stake in a drug they developed together, Libtayo (cemiplimab).
In partnership with the U.S. government, Evonik Industries is investing more than $200 million to build a lipid manufacturing facility in the United States.
Children under the age of five could be eligible to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine against COVID-19 as soon as late June.
Cassava Sciences is reeling after another journal retracted an article co-authored by a key collaborator on its experimental Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic, simufilam.
Repare Therapeutics announced a global cancer collaboration valued at up to $1.2 billion with Swiss pharma giant Roche for the development and commercialization of camonsertib.
Upstream Bio is focusing its efforts on an experimental treatment for severe asthma licensed from Astellas Pharma.