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From Eli Lilly’s David Ricks to Pfizer Albert Bourla, the top five highest paid CEOs made a combined $157.8 million in 2025.
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Analysts homed in on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy type 1 assets during first quarter earnings as major players like REGENXBIO and Novartis as well as Dyne, Wave, Solid and Sarepta near the regulatory finish line.
While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Early data from a combination of Cue Biopharma’s CUE-101 and Keytruda shows the treatment is effective in patients with recurrent/metastatic HPV16+ head and neck cancer.
PACT Pharma shared results of a first-of-its-kind trial using CRISPR technology to swap a gene in a patient’s immune cell to treat solid tumors.
At the FDA’s request, GSK has restricted the use of Zejula, a PARP inhibitor, to a specific population as a second-line maintenance treatment for ovarian cancer following updated data.
A trio of well-known biopharma executives invested $20 million in a Series A extension for San Diego’s Lipidio Pharmaceuticals.
The FDA approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi in combination with Imjudo and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
Seagen’s Adcetris has been given FDA approval for the treatment of children aged two years and above with high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
While Biogen and Seagen made the biggest C-suite splashes this week, other companies across the biopharma industry also bolstered their leadership teams with new talent.
After six months of searching for its next chief executive, Washington’s largest biotech firm has found its match. On Thursday, Seagen named David R. Epstein as CEO.
GSK and Sanofi veteran Christopher A. Viehbacher will take over as chief executive officer for Biogen. He replaces Michel Vounatsos, whose departure was announced in May.
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics ran into another stumbling block with ALS hopeful NurOwn Thursday as the FDA issued a Refusal to File Letter for its Biologics License Application.