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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
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Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has gained full rights to ARO-PNPLA3, formerly JNJ-75220795, the company announced Wednesday.
Genome engineering company Replay and the MD Anderson Cancer Center have joined forces to launch Syena, an oncology product company.
Biogen’s 2022 fourth-quarter and full-year report comes the day after an additional warning on the company’s first Alzheimer’s drug came to light.
Curie.Bio launched this week with $520 million to take early startups from ground zero through Series A funding.
Enveda’s primary R&D efforts will focus on inflammation, fibrosis and neurosensory biology within the GI, dermatology and pulmonary therapeutic areas.
The COVID-19 research collaboration between Vir Biotechnology and GSK has largely come to an end, as Vir announced Monday it would be going it alone or with other partners.
The FDA has rejected Soligenix’s NDA for HyBryte (synthetic hypericin), a therapeutic developed to treat early-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) has been praised by many in the life sciences who see it as a step forward in protecting the rights of pregnant employees.
Fresh off of his Sanofi exit, John Reed is joining Johnson & Johnson, where he will serve as executive vice president, pharmaceuticals, R&D.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the founder of Roivant Sciences, is officially running for president, the GOP hopeful announced Tuesday.