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Early-stage financing rounds are on track to hit their lowest dollar value in years as funders continue to eschew risky investments, experts told BioSpace.
A mostly black box since emerging with more than a billion dollars in hand, Xaira Therapeutics is slowly pulling back the curtain, revealing plans to find partners and validate its pipeline.
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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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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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The Empire State is seeing large infusions of funds from the state and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop therapies for cancer and other applications.
The new company, Mural Oncology, will continue registrational studies of its IL-2 cytokine in melanoma and ovarian cancer utilizing a $275 million cash runway expected to take them to the end of 2025.
Months after the FDA lifted its partial hold on their Phase II multiple myeloma program, Kite and Arcellx are expanding their existing development and commercialization collaboration in the blood cancer space.
Carina Clingman, founder of The Collaboratory Career Hub, answers questions about the ins and outs of finding, landing and succeeding in biotech jobs.
On the heels of cutting 100 jobs in Ireland, Pfizer is laying off around 500 workers from its Sandwich, Kent facility in the U.K. under its cost-reduction plan to save $3.5 billion through 2024.
Whistleblowers allege that ZZ Biotech co-founder Berislav Zlokovic pressured his scientists to adjust data in favor of the investigational stroke therapy 3K3A-APC, according to a dossier obtained by Science.
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In this episode BioSpace’s Greg Slabodkin, Tyler Patchen and Lori Ellis discuss Zepbound, Wegovy, the weight loss race and the future of this drug class.
Watch this webinar to gain insights from expert speakers, Dr. Iris Alroy and Dr. Kristopher Brannan, who have made significant advancements in the field of RBPs.
Executives from Israel-based companies express concern about future investment and other operational impacts, as the war rages on in Gaza with tragic loss of life amid political and economic uncertainties.
In today’s challenging environment, here are some creative ways biotechs have found to survive and thrive.