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Jay Bhattacharya will become the latest leader of the CDC on an acting basis, days after Jim O’Neill stepped aside.
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PitchBook’s 2025 biopharma VC analysis clocked $33.8 billion in capital dispatched in 2025, mainly to companies with later-stage programs ready to roll into the clinic.
Long an R&D company that partnered off assets, RNAi biotech Ionis Pharmaceuticals shifted in 2025 to bring two medicines to market alone. Analysts are already impressed—and there’s more to come in 2026.
Regulatory uncertainty is no longer background noise. It is a material investment risk that reshapes how capital is deployed and pipelines are prioritized.
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The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine is part of a larger communications crisis unfolding at the agency over the past nine months that has also ensnarled Sarepta, Capricor, uniQure and many more.
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More than 3,000 people in the U.S. suffered from side effects of Ozempic in 2023, according to exclusive reporting on Wednesday from Reuters citing data from America’s Poison Centers.
After 26 weeks of follow-up, five of six children treated with an experimental gene therapy developed in China showed strong improvements in speech perception and could hold normal conversations.
The FDA’s Peter Marks and Nicole Verdun in the NEJM Wednesday disclosed that more than 27,000 CAR-T doses have been administered in the U.S. as of the end of 2023, of which there are 22 cases of T-cell cancers.
Most respondents expressed concerns about the economic environment, as competition for jobs jumped more than 130%.
In the biopharma industry, engineers are pivotal drivers of innovation, helping to shape the landscape of healthcare discoveries.
While the FDA considers a T cell malignancy risk to be applicable to all commercial CAR-T therapies, Gilead Sciences’ Tecartus has a revised warning that potential adverse events “may” occur.
The regulator’s Complete Response Letter flagged issues with the new formulation of tesamorelin’s chemistry, manufacturing and controls and sought more information about its immunogenicity risk.
While decentralized trials are expediting innovation and promoting diversity, challenges remain, including complex stakeholder ecosystems, skills gaps and regulation.
The company said it’s preparing to file a New Drug Application with the FDA on the strength of late-stage study data for its investigational RNA-targeted donidalorsen in patients with hereditary angioedema.
An FDA advisory committee will meet to review J&J and Legend Biotech’s supplemental BLA for Carvykti for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients who have undergone at least one prior line of therapy.