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Kyverna Therapeutics’ miv-cel showed improved mobility and a favorable safety profile at one year in patients with stiff person syndrome, further derisking an upcoming FDA application, William Blair said on Thursday. The biotech plans to file for priority review this year.
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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.
With a trillion-dollar market cap and a wildly successful GLP-1 portfolio, Eli Lilly isn’t resting on its laurels. At the Psych Congress 2026, the company presented early-stage data that could support the potential of its next-gen GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonist to treat diseases far beyond obesity.
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Manufacturers are redesigning their processes to balance both better future emergency vaccine mobilization and the more demanding work of maintaining flexible, commercially viable manufacturing networks.
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Two RNA biotechs, ADARx Pharmaceuticals and City Therapeutics, are taking advantage of the IPO frenzy, which has led to a total of 27 newly public biotechs so far this year.
Ten patients out of 20 who received Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech’s Carvykti remained alive at five years of follow up.
While Acadia Pharmaceuticals’ candidate has missed the main goal of a Phase 2 trial, the company is still moving forward with the anti-psychosis candidate in Alzheimer’s disease as well as Lewy body dementia.
Analysts were keen to see a new modality compete with Roche’s approved drug Lucentis in the late-stage trial but new safety issues could complicate the future for Merck’s candidate.
The new partnership follows Roche’s recent R&D expansion in Boston focused on development for cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases.
In this episode of Denatured presented by Curium, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Mike Patterson, CEO North America and Professor Sabine Brookman-May, vice president and head of Global Clinical Development. We look at the momentum behind radioligand therapy and how its diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities are improving care for more than 14 million patients worldwide.
After imeroprubart failed to demonstrate sufficient efficacy in lupus during a Phase 2b trial, Immunovant is moving on from the indication and looking to other high priority programs for the drug in neurology, endocrinology and rheumatology.
Amgen is awaiting another Phase 3 readout for the investigational Sjögren’s disease therapy, set for later this year. William Blair anticipates that at least two trials will be needed to support an FDA application.
A late-stage test of Roche and Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ sefaxersen showed that the drug reduced protein in the urine, which suggests the RNA-targeting therapy could improve kidney function and delay transplant.