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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.
While Alnylam’s recent reduced revenue guidance spooked investors, analysts remain broadly bullish on the biotech’s commercial prospects.
The first-time CEO says her own sponsors took chances on her—and that industry leaders need to do the same to rebuild momentum for gender equity.
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The Gilead Sciences deal, which include $135 million in upfront and near-term payments, marks a critical platform validation for Vir Biotechnology as investors await an upcoming readout in solid tumors.
Revolution Medicines’ recently approved drug showed a 24% overall response rate and a high rate of side effects in patients whose cancer has a G12D mutation, reinforcing Mizuho’s view that a more specific agent such as Verastem Oncology’s VS-7375 “should come first for G12D patients.”
Since his release from prison in 2022, Martin Shkreli has traded stocks and publicly opined on news events, damaging reputations and sinking share prices for small biotechs including Capricor and Cassava, the FTC alleges.
Obesity-focused Zealand Pharma is buying into Generate:Biomedicines’s generative AI platform to create new multispecific drug candidates.
The candidate is an oral version of ecnoglutide, a subcutaneous formulation of which is approved in China for type 2 diabetes and weight management. Pfizer owns commercialization rights for ecnoglutide in the Asian country.
Johnson & Johnson beat analyst expectations in the third quarter but left Wall Street wanting more; BMS dominated the news cycle on Monday with a Phase 3 win validating its $4.1 billion RayzeBio buy and mixed data in a late-stage pulmonary fibrosis trial; Revolution Medicines’ newly approved pancreatic cancer drug works better for patients with certain mutations; and Caribou Biosciences may be on its way out.
While industry leaders are unsure whether the U.S. or China will prevail, they are largely united in the belief that Europe is lagging behind.
While BNT113 failed to improve progression-free survival in patients with a type of head and neck cancer during a Phase 3 trial, BioNTech is holding out hope for an overall survival win—but analysts say that outcome is now “less likely.”
Roche has gained access to a genetic obesity approach from China’s Rona Therapeutics for up to $100 million in upfront and near-term payments.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals will no longer test Niktimvo for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, but the company’s work to expand the drug’s label in chronic graft-versus-host disease, for which it was approved in 2024, will continue.