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Industry watchers responded mostly positively to the commissioner’s new voucher program, but worries remain over staffing cuts at the agency.
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Around 25 companies have gone public this year, most of them in the early months. Most have tumbled from their original offer price.
By far, the largest acquisition of 2024 was Novo Holdings’ yet-to-be-closed buyout of manufacturer Catalent at $16.5 billion. Outside of that, the leading pharmaceutical companies kept to less than $5 billion per deal.
The darlings of the weight loss and diabetes spaces, GLP-1 receptor agonists have shown promise against Alzheimer’s in recent studies—with Phase III results expected next year from Novo Nordisk.
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Johnson & Johnson announced an analysis from the Phase 1/2 MonumenTAL-1 study of TALVEY™ in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma showed that patients treated with TALVEY™ were subsequently treated effectively with several classes of therapy, including anti-B-cell maturation antigen chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy as well as BCMA and anti-Fc receptor-like protein 5 bispecific antibodies, after TALVEY™ treatment.
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After Emma Walmsley steps down as GSK CEO in January, Vertex Pharma’s Reshma Kewalramani will be the sole female CEO at a top-20 pharma company. Still, there are many prominent women in pharma that could someday break through again.
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Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi and Roche had little clarity on the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs but many companies are already preparing for what’s to come.
Granite will focus on two antibody therapies, both targeting crucial players in the inflammatory cascade to address autoimmune diseases.
In this episode presented by DIA, BioSpace’s head of insights Lori Ellis discusses how collaboration and investment shape the the future of women’s health with Martin Hodosi, partner at Kearney and Melissa Laitner, director of strategic initiatives at the National Academy of Medicine.
With a new raise provided by Flagship Pioneering, the new company is aiming to find “the silent window” before disease symptoms set in.
The FDA is asking Novavax for a non-mandatory postmarketing commitment to produce additional clinical data for its investigational COVID-19 vaccine.
The tradipitant saga stretches back to September 2024, when the FDA declined to approve Vanda’s drug in gastroparesis, a stomach condition characterized by delayed gastric emptying.
Proquad is rarely a newsmaker from Merck’s earnings, but this time around, the U.S. has had a series of measles outbreaks. Sales of the vaccine were $539 million for the quarter, a 5% decline from the same period in 2024.
Where thousands of former Health and Human Services employees will work next is unknown, but biopharma companies likely aren’t the main destination. Two biopharma executives discuss potential landing spots.
Companies are announcing significant investments in U.S. manufacturing in response to looming tariffs. An AstraZeneca executive and Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk spokespeople discuss potential job and skill-building opportunities and where manufacturing might head in the future.
Roche’s exposure to the tariffs is mostly limited to four medicines, three of which it already produces in the U.S., according to CEO Thomas Schinecker, who declined to reveal what these assets are.