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Mar 22, 2024

SPECIAL REPORT—The top 10 pharma R&D budgets for 2023 


The obesity pipeline was 'late breaking.' Here's what the R&D landscape looks like now 


Lonza strikes $1.2B deal to buy mammoth Roche plant amid CDMO industry upheaval


Novartis lays out $256M for antibody plant expansion in Singapore, plots 100 hires


#FierceMadness is back: Get voting in the 2024 drug name tournament 


#FierceMadness: The Best Biotech Name Tournament 

 

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The top 10 pharma R&D budgets for 2023

After nearly a decade as No. 1, Roche was finally knocked off our list’s top spot, sent spinning down the ladder by a whopping $30 billion from Merck & Co.
 

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The obesity pipeline was 'late breaking.' Here's what the R&D landscape looks like now

If you’re feeling like the obesity pipeline filled up overnight, you’re not alone. A new analysis from IQVIA takes a look at the drugs in development.

Lonza strikes $1.2B deal to buy mammoth Roche plant amid CDMO industry upheaval

In a bid to corner contracts on next-generation medicines, production juggernaut Lonza is picking up one of the world’s biggest biologics manufacturing facilities from its Swiss compatriot Roche.

Novartis lays out $256M for antibody plant expansion in Singapore, plots 100 hires

Novartis broke ground on a $256 million expansion of its biopharmaceutical production facility in Singapore. The project will introduce digitalization and automation at the site in a bid to boost manufacturing productivity and to help upskill the company’s workforce.

#FierceMadness is back: Get voting in the 2024 drug name tournament

It’s March, so it’s time for some #FierceMadness. Last year, we channeled the NCAA tournament for the best pharma ad campaigns, but this year we’re looking for the best of the best in drug names.

#FierceMadness: The Best Biotech Name Tournament

What's the best biotech name? It's time to vote in the Fierce Madness #biotechbracket.

Moderna won't advance US-backed Zika vaccine without more outside funding

Moderna does not plan to advance a midstage Zika vaccine without additional outside cash, despite receiving U.S. funding thus far, according to a regulatory disclosure. 

Chinese biotech's MASH candidate reduces liver fat in phase 2 trial

Chipscreen Biosciences' metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) candidate reduced patients' liver fat levels, adding further momentum to drugs aimed at the condition.

With executive shakeup and new pharma unit, Bayer's overhaul takes shape

Early this month at an investor event, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson declared that employees “are ready for change." On Wednesday, Anderson answered the call with changes to the company’s leadership. In the pharma sector, Bayer revealed a new Global Commercialization unit, which will be led by Christine Roth. The company also tabbed Sebastian Guth as its chief operating officer.

Oprah shines her star power on GLP-1s in new weight loss drugs TV special

GLP-1 drugs—which include blockbusters like Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, and which are expected to supplant PD-1 inhibitors as the best-selling drug class by the end of this year—received an hour of free, overwhelmingly positive publicity on Monday night.

Nvidia unveils generative AI programs for drug molecule design, protein predictions

A little more than a year after announcing plans to move its molecule design programs into the field of generative AI, Nvidia is setting up shop.

Tenaya gene therapy for deadly heart condition boosts long-term survival in mice

Tenaya Therapeutics’ gene therapy for an inherited heart condition that can cause sudden death appears to be effective in mice, new data show.
 
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