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The BioSpace 40 Under 40 honoree helped steer Forge’s sale to Ajinomoto. Now, Samantha Piteri-Molina sees opportunities in AI-driven analytics and Ohio’s gene therapy ecosystem—with a responsibility to patients worldwide.
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BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
BioSpace 40 Under 40 honoree Louisa Helms is a lot of things—athlete, scientist, entrepreneur and likely future biotech executive. Just don’t ask her to pick up any pipettes.
In its latest five-year plan, China has set its sights on developing five drugs that could each rake in more than $1 billion globally by 2030. Experts say it’s well on its way, with two medications having already met that bar.
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Evommune is commiting $30 million upfront for Hinova Pharmaceuticals’ oral molecular glue degrader—a low-cost bet with a high probability of success, according to analysts, after clinical failures roiled the biotech’s internal pipeline earlier this year.
AstraZeneca has apparently made a $10 billion bid to acquire Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, an offer William Blair suspects will not be the last for the hot ticket metabolic biotech.
Boehringer Ingelheim is building up its China strategy, inking a deal to develop new cancer treatments with Sino Biopharmaceutical just weeks after opening an R&D facility in Shanghai.
AbbVie’s $100 million upfront cash payment will purchase global rights to Nxera’s deprioritized oral small molecule, which has already completed Phase 1 testing.
With the first Phase 3 data expected for Amgen’s MariTide next year, analysts are looking for evidence that the GLP-1 candidate is tolerable. Meanwhile, the company has begun testing an autoinjector formulation.
Speaking on third quarter earnings calls this week, Novo and Pfizer’s CEOs see little change to their Most Favored Nation drug pricing deals, which were signed with the Trump administration last year.
Novo CEO Mike Maziar Doustdar insists that his company is ahead of fierce rival Eli Lilly as oral Wegovy rises to 8 million total prescriptions since its January launch.
Since Pfizer already owns a tick-borne encephalitis franchise in Europe, the region is a natural first step for the pharma’s upcoming Lyme disease vaccine.
The majority of the large pharmas have now reported third quarter earnings—spoiler alert: Eli Lilly made more money than anyone expected. Plus, the FDA dropped another initiative aimed at accelerating rare disease treatments; HHS greenlights the compounding of six unapproved peptides; and uniQure’s embattled gene therapy for Huntington’s disease has finally been accepted for review.
Pfizer is calling upon lessons learned from one of the first drugs ever made available on the internet—Viagra—as it commercializes a new obesity drug in China.