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After a sluggish 2025, biotech IPOs have roared back to life. Fueled by resilient stock performances and improving market sentiment, the total number of public debuts so far this year has already eclipsed 2025’s total.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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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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Avadel and Jazz Pharma, a leader in treating sleep disorders, are locked in a patent dispute. If it receives final FDA approval, Avadel’s Lumryz could challenge Jazz’s market dominance.
Sanofi has terminated a development agreement with Regulus in Alport syndrome, while Merck reaches the point of futility in a Phase III colorectal cancer trial.
As the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron subvariants spread, researchers continue to develop COVID-19 therapies and approaches for preventing or treating the disease. For that and more, continue reading.
The Bay State, home to the busy bio-hub Genetown, is experiencing some growing pains. Companies like Biogen and Eisai (H3 Biomedicine) are reducing their headcount.
Innovent Biologics’ Phase II trial of mazdutide, a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes, showed the drug met its primary endpoint by successfully reducing HbA1c levels.
The FDA has approved Incyte’s Opzelura as the first and only at-home therapy for repigmentation in nonsegmental vitiligo.
The buyout comes on the heels of promising Phase I/II results from GTX-102, an antisense oligonucleotide candidate being developed to treat Angelman syndrome.
Five weeks after taking the reins as CEO of CRISPR-focused Editas Medicine, Gilmore O’Neill fulfilled his first task, appointing a new chief medical officer.
In what it is calling a strategic decision, Sesen Bio announced Monday that it has paused development activities of Vicineum, its lead asset, in the United States.
The delay is due, in part, to some internal Seagen actions, including a data readout for its bladder cancer drug Padcev, as well as a legal matter between Seagen and Daiichi Sankyo.