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After Novartis confirmed the reports of tumors in patients who have been treated with the spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy, the FDA will determine if any regulatory action is needed for Zolgensma or for the pharma’s similar product Itvisma.
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To build on the momentum in MASH, we—at Madrigal Pharmaceuticals and the industry more widely—must further expand approaches to diagnosis, monitoring and individualized treatment to help more patients.
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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.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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While Moderna preps an entry to the oncology market next year with a personalized cancer vaccine, COVID sales are holding steady with several other vaccine launches underway around the world.
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.
Sarepta Therapeutics’ newly minted CEO Michael Severino laid out his path to returning the muscular dystrophy therapy maker to the forefront of the rapidly expanding market.
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Also lined up are target action dates for Sanofi’s Gaucher disease therapy, GSK’s lung cancer medicine and BridgeBio’s muscular dystrophy drug.
Personalized cancer vaccines are getting closer to market. Merck and Moderna just showed successful manufacturing in a large Phase 3 trial, proving they can deliver the goods.
Pent-up demand for the new pancreatic cancer therapy Rasonque helped RevMed soar past analysts’ sales expectations and reach 5,000 patients in the third quarter.
With backing from three Big Pharma investment arms, British biotech T-Therapeutics is brewing up a clinical launch for its cancer and autoimmune T cell engagers.
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.
In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from from Lewis Bender, CEO at Intensity Therapeutics and Paul-Peter Tak, president, CEO and board director at Candel Therapeutics. We explore how intratumoral therapies trigger systemic anticancer immunity from a local injection, and redefine a foundational platform in immuno-oncology.