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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 U.S. government has requested that a Delaware federal judge deny an AstraZeneca motion for summary judgement in its Inflation Reduction Act case, arguing that the company’s core claims are meritless.
In a late-stage study, most Huntington’s disease patients reported that their symptoms of chorea were “much improved” or “very much improved” following treatment with Neurocrine Biosciences’ VMAT2 inhibitor Ingrezza.
While Moderna’s total revenue for the third quarter beat analyst expectations, the company Thursday reported a loss as demand for its COVID vaccines declined.
A recent report by Tufts Medical Center reveals impressive approval rates for durable cell and gene therapies, but experts urge caution over persistent safety and accessibility concerns.
Sales of type 2 diabetes treatment Mounjaro brought in $1.4 billion in the third quarter. However, the company cut its full-year profit guidance due to charges mainly related to recent acquisitions.
Riding a wave of skyrocketing Wegovy and Ozempic sales, the company on Thursday raised its sales and operating profit outlook for the rest of the year as part of its third-quarter earnings announcement.
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The company’s blockbuster cancer drug continues to snap up FDA approvals, this time in treating biliary tract cancer in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine. It’s the sixth indication in gastrointestinal cancers.
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The Swiss pharma has set up its challenge to AbbVie’s blockbuster immunosuppressive drug Humira with a label expansion for Cosentyx in hidradenitis suppurativa, a painful long-term skin condition.
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Ahead of the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price negotiations, the regulator has approved Amgen’s biosimilar challenge to Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara—with an interchangeable designation to boot.
The biotech venture capital firm, led by former Andreessen Horowitz senior partner Kouki Harasaki, emerged from stealth on Wednesday focused on investing in companies with first-in-class or best-in-class therapies.