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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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Instil Bio is discontinuing the development of its unmodified tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapeutic, ITIL-168, and laying off 60% of its staff.
Those who work in the biopharma industry often see more setbacks than successes. To understand how to overcome failures, BioSpace spoke with two experts on coping with setbacks and staying positive.
Sanofi has terminated its global development and commercialization pact with Revolution Medicines, Inc. for their SHP2 inhibitor drug candidate,
Novartis reported Thursday that a Phase III trial of iptacopan met its primary endpoint in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) - the company’s second win in this indication in as many months.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals agreed to a collaboration deal with Entrada Therapeutics. The two companies announced a collaboration to develop an intracellular Endosomal Escape Vehicle.
Relmada’s investigational NDMA receptor channel blocker, REL-1017, failed to meet its primary endpoint in major depressive disorder in the Phase III RELIANCE I trial.
With $47 million in hand, Dantari launched Thursday to advance its Targeted High-capacity Drug Conjugate technology – its take on an antibody-drug conjugate - for solid tumors.
AVROBIO is planning a Phase II/III registrational trial for its Gaucher Disease Type 3 (GD3) gene therapy candidate, AVR-RD-02, in 2023.
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In the heated race for a new respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for older adults, Pfizer gained ground on GSK after winning priority review designation for its vaccine candidate.
Neurocrine’s NBI-827104 failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase II study for epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike-and-wave during sleep, the company announced Tuesday.