| Today's Big NewsMay 30, 2023 |
| By Andrea Park Despite multiple attempts to put off the start of her 135-month prison sentence after being found guilty on four counts of defrauding investors in blood-testing startup Theranos, the time has come for Elizabeth Holmes to report to prison. |
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By Zoey Becker The company is accusing Pfizer and Moderna of stepping on its lipid particle delivery tech with their lucrative COVID-19 vaccines. |
By Gabrielle Masson The departures of 2021's three highest paid R&D executives from Big Pharma threw a curveball at our annual list, prompting us to trim the feature down to five leaders. |
By Kevin Dunleavy It’s been a winding road, but Lexicon has reached its destination, gaining an FDA approval for Inpefa (sotagliflozin). The once-daily pill becomes the first SGLT1/SGLT2 inhibitor to reach the market. It has been sanctioned to reduce the risk of heart failure. |
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Wednesday, Jun 14, 2023 | 10:00am ET / 7:00am PT Targeting proteins for degradation therapeutically, as an alternative to inhibiting them, holds great promise for treating diseases in which pathogenic proteins are considered "undruggable" due to a lack of active sites for conventional small molecules. Register now. 
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By Nick Paul Taylor Pfizer is looming large in Novo Nordisk’s rearview mirror. Weeks after seeing its rival for the hemophilia market stumble, Pfizer has reported phase 3 data that suggest its candidate is competitive and position it to file for approval in the coming months. |
By Andrea Park XtalPi’s artificial intelligence- and robotics-powered technologies have helped its pharmaceutical partners pinpoint dozens of small-molecule compounds that could potentially be further developed into novel therapeutics—and Eli Lilly wants a piece of the AI drug development pie. |
By Kevin Dunleavy Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $13.5 million to end a six-year, class-action lawsuit that alleged the company overpriced its insulin. As part of the settlement, Lilly has agreed to cap out-of-pocket cost its insulin at $35 per month for four years. |
By Gabrielle Masson When it rains, it pours, an old adage that Rain Oncology hasn’t been able to shelter from. After a phase 3 fail, the precision oncology biotech is saying farewell to its chief medical officer, halting programs and laying off 65% of its workforce. |
By Andrea Park After its precarious financial situation led Titan Medical to seek out a sale—without success—lay off nearly all of its employees and, as of this March, be delisted from the Nasdaq, the surgical robotics maker is taking a different tack. |
By Joseph Keenan UCB Pharma, a Belgium-based biopharma company, has been slapped with a Form 483 from the FDA following an inspection that uncovered issues with its quality control unit and product storage. |
By Max Bayer GreenLight Biosciences will seek its dream off Wall Street in a go-private deal less than two years after taking the SPAC route there. |
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Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 11am ET / 8am PT In this era of personalized medicine, biomarkers can provide important insights at every stage of drug discovery and development. By advancing our understanding of cancer pathophysiology and tumor profiling, they play a critical role in the rational development of novel therapies. Register now to learn more. 
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