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Attendance at the Biotech CEO Sisterhood’s annual photo of women leaders and allies in Union Square doubled this year. There’s still more work to do.
After winning a surprise approval for its hereditary angioedema drug Ekterly, KalVista is confident the oral offering will capture the lion’s share of the market for on-demand use.
As drug candidates discovered via AI move into later-stage clinical trials, the technology seems to be doing as promised: speeding drug development.
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It doesn’t matter how many times you have traversed Union Square; no one knows which way is north, or where The Westin is in relation to the Ritz Carlton. A Verizon outage brought that into focus on Wednesday.
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Following a series of rejections and clinical failures, Eiger BioPharmaceuticals has declared bankruptcy and will sell all its assets as the company winds down operations.
A federal appeals court Monday backed Teva and Viatris’ challenge to a lower court ruling, finding that the companies can again make their case against Johnson & Johnson’s patent covering its schizophrenia drug Invega Sustenna.
Alongside the abrupt departure of Chinese biotech WuXi from BIO, Congress is rattling sabers over perceived national security implications of the U.S.’s R&D relationship with the country.
While some companies look to AI models to stop revenue leakage in business operations, experts say more fundamental issues must first be addressed.
Fresh from its IPO, Fractyl Health got an Investigational Device Exemption from the FDA, clearing a pivotal study of its Revita system to help maintain weight loss following the discontinuation of GLP-1 drugs.
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AstraZeneca has secured the FDA’s green light for Voydeya, a first-in-class, oral, Factor D inhibitor developed as an add-on to its standard-of-care Ultomiris or Soliris for certain patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.
The filing of a Biologics License Application for a subcutaneous version of Biogen and Eisai’s Leqembi (lecanemab) has been delayed due to procedural reasons, the companies announced Monday.
Despite strong demand for weight-loss drugs, the lack of Medicare coverage is potentially interfering with prescription and dispensing rates of anti-obesity medications for elderly adults, according to a new study.
Bristol Myers Squibb’s $4.8 billion acquisition of Mirati pays off with strong data from the KRYSTAL-12 study of Krazati, showing that the KRAS inhibitor significantly improves progression-free survival.
Avalo Therapeutics rolled the dice on a big pivot Wednesday, acquiring AlmataBio and focusing on the biotech’s ex-Eli Lilly hidradenitis suppurativa candidate over its existing assets.