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AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ data drop divulging more details from its highly watched Phase 3 transthyretin silencer trial “further confuses the picture” for Wainua when combined with the standard of care for ATTR-CM, analysts say.
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Current leaders Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have cornered the early market for weight loss therapeutics, but several other players, large and small, are bidding for a piece of the potential $200 billion pie.
Twenty-five biotechs have used the IPO route to go public this year—with five of those debuts occurring this month alone. It’s the most IPOs since 2021, when the industry recorded 78 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Novartis’ Pluvicto is a blockbuster, Curium heads into talks with the FDA about the review of its rival drug candidate believing a competing product can make the supply chain more resilient.
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Vitruvias Therapeutics has “ceased operations” after voluntarily recalling a batch recall of generic thyroid tablets due to possible superpotency that could cause a range of adverse events.
The FDA granted the approval of Revolution Medicines’ daraxonrasib, now to be known as Rasonque, in pancreatic adenocarcinoma 6.5 months ahead of deadline.
Setbacks to efforts to use Cellares’ automated platform to make an approved CAR-T cell therapy led BMS to terminate its partnership with the manufacturing specialist.
At the center of Biohaven’s agreement with SK Biopharmaceutical is the ion channel platform and the lead epilepsy candidate opakalim, for which Phase 2/3 data are expected later this year.
BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
FDA extends its review of Capricor Therapeutics’ Duchenne muscular dystrophy cell therapy as an unhappy shareholder advocates for change; Merck and Moderna tout positive data for their mRNA-based cancer vaccine; Trump nominates White House aide Heidi Overton as FDA commissioner; and the oral obesity market heats up with rivals Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk going head-to-head.
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Haisco Pharmaceutical Group has been on a deal hot streak this year, inking major deals with Eli Lilly, AbbVie and more. The new company will take on one of Haisco’s core immunology assets.
Eli Lilly’s best play for Foundayo is to bring it overseas, a more price-sensitive market where the pharma can more readily outcompete Novo Nordisk “given the high margins of a small-molecule therapy,” Truist analyst Srikripa Devarakonda told BioSpace.
Roche, through its subsidiary Genentech, will gain access to the investigational asset HM17321, which is designed to not only elicit weight loss but also improve lean mass.