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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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Eli Lilly stands to gain access to DICE Therapeutics’ DELSCAPE platform, which enables the design of orally available molecules for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
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Following the FDA’s approval in March, India-based Lupin is launching its generic thiamine hydrochloride injection USP in the U.S. for treating vitamin B1 deficiency.
As geopolitical tensions rise in the region, AstraZeneca is looking at potentially spinning off its China unit into its own independent business.
While the German biotech that partnered with Pfizer on a COVID vaccine sees its first lawsuit, legal experts don’t expect similar cases in the U.S.
Following disappointing Phase IIb results, BioSenic is pausing the development of its tibial fracture cell therapy ALLOB derived from mesenchymal stem cells.
In the first head-to-head trial of CGRP antagonists, Lilly’s Emgality failed to demonstrate that it was significantly better than Pfizer’s Nurtec ODT at easing migraine headaches.
On the heels of a legal challenge to the Inflation Reduction Act by Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb on Friday filed its own lawsuit claiming that the law’s drug price negotiation provision is unconstitutional.
The company reported results Friday from the KEYNOTE-811 trial in which the anti-PD-1 therapy took an important step toward FDA approval for rare esophageal tumors.
The data for Reproxalap, Aldeyra Therapeutics’ drug for treating allergic conjunctivitis and dry-eye disease, could potentially pave the way for an alternative to over-the-counter eye drops.
The stock deal aims to strengthen Coherus Biosciences’ position in the field of cancer therapeutics and expand its product portfolio.