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The number of biotech and pharma professionals taking jobs they’re overqualified for is now over 50%, based on a BioSpace LinkedIn poll. A recruiting firm executive discusses the trend, the reasons behind it and why it doesn’t have to derail careers.
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Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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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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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Sio Gene has terminated its licensing deal with the UMass to develop and commercialize two gene therapy product candidates to focus on more potentially profitable projects.
Amgen held its earnings conference call on Wednesday for Q1 of 2022. Most notably, the company provided updates on its ongoing litigation with the Internal Revenue Service.
The Q1 results for Voxzogo gave BioMarin the confidence to raise its 2022 full-year guidance to between $100 million to $125 million (net product revenue) for the drug.
Bryostatin-1 increases antigen expression on the surface of cancer cells, enabling them to be seen and killed by IO agents.
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals announced that Pfizer made a $25 million equity investment in the company.
Exogene nets $2 million to propel the development of its AI platform for T-cell receptor discovery and Healome spins out to deploy a ‘pro-healing’ platform with a focus on ocular surface diseases.
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AviadoBio is celebrating orphan drug designations from both the U.S. FDA and the European Commission for AVB-101, a gene therapy intended to treat frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
BeiGene’s candidate drug tislelizumab for cancer succeeded in meeting the primary endpoint of overall survival in a global Phase III trial. Learn more about it here.
Weeks after Gilead Sciences raised concern over counterfeit HIV drugs, Johnson & Johnson has taken similar action against the distribution of counterfeit prescription drugs.
Cytovia Holdings, a biopharma company focused on natural killer (NK) cells, merged with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp. to go public.