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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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The biopharma company scored two major wins on Tuesday: a court victory over HIV patent claims and an acquisition deal to expand its pipeline in cancer and inflammatory diseases.
The layoffs come as the company posts nearly $300 million in net losses and just over $80 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2023.
The pharma company will lay off 170 employees and drop all candidates but one, as it seeks to rebuild its business.
The delay and guidance downgrade follow a spate of operational issues that have affected three of Catalent’s major manufacturing sites.
The deal with BlissBio is the latest in a cascade of multi-million- and billion-dollar acquisitions and collaborations centered on antibody-drug conjugates.
Takeda told BioSpace that the California layoffs are directly related to the recent cuts in Massachusetts.
Novel therapies often pass through several owners on their way to the market. Here’s a look at some of the drugs that got dropped before they hit primetime.
Partnership seeks to identify novel therapeutic molecules to address diseases with high unmet patient needs. It’s the second target discovery company to link with BI in the last month.
The German biotech is trying to deepen its pipeline in cancer and other infectious diseases as COVID-19 markets contract and the international public health emergency comes to an end.
Weeks after announcing a CEO shake-up and slightly decreased Q1 revenues, BMS plans to cut 48 staff members from its Princeton, NJ, facility.