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After a sluggish 2025, biotech IPOs have roared back to life. Fueled by resilient stock performances and improving market sentiment, the total number of public debuts so far this year has already eclipsed 2025’s total.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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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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Vir Biotechnology terminated a two-year-old COVID-19-related antibody collaboration with Wuxi Biologics that included sotrovimab, which lost EUA in the U.S. earlier this year.
Based on topline data, Pfizer stated that three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine met all immunobridging criteria required for EUA. The FDA’s advisory committee will meet June 15 to discuss the matter.
Sunday night, U.S. health authorities announced that they may have found the third documented case of monkeypox in a patient in South Florida.
Elicio Therapeutics published data on the preprint server bioRxiv, describing preclinical research into its cancer vaccine that shows a lot of promise.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shared 18-month results from its phase III Helios-A clinical study demonstrating that vutrisiran improves clinical cardiac symptoms in patients with hATTR.
Two experimental drugs from Seres Therapeutics and Vera Therapeutics celebrate clinical trial wins in hard-to-treat disease areas.
The compact and portable nasal spray means it can be used directly before an anxiety-provoking trigger or at the beginning of an episode.
The approval marks the first for EoE, a chronic, progressive type 2 inflammatory disease that damages the eosinophilic esophagitis and prevents it from working properly.
BridgeBio Pharma and its affiliate Phoenix Tissue Repair announced positive data from their Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB).
Celebrities’ struggles with breast cancer are bringing new awareness to the importance of screening - particularly because new therapies like Radius Health’s elacestrant are on the horizon.