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Jun 11, 2025

FDA aims for 'rapid or instant' drug reviews, with AI tool initially assessing applications


Pharmas to face higher drug rebates in UK despite government's tweak to proposal


‘Injecting politics into NIH': Senators drill Jay Bhattacharya in hearing over $18B budget cut proposal


Genentech lays off 143 workers at South San Francisco campus


Omnipods, assemble! Insulet joins forces with Marvel for comic book starring hero with Type 1 diabetes


Boston Scientific aims to consolidate, expand its Minnesota footprints: report

 

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FDA aims for 'rapid or instant' drug reviews, with AI tool initially assessing applications

The Food and Drug Administration has gone all in on AI since Martin Makary, M.D., took over the agency, most recently demonstrated by the coronation of new generative AI tool Elsa. Now, Makary and Vinay Prasad, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, have published an outline of the FDA’s priorities that includes dramatically hastened drug reviews powered by AI document evaluation.
 

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Pharmas to face higher drug rebates in UK despite government's tweak to proposal

Despite an outcry from the biopharmaceutical industry, the U.K. government has kept the rebate rate under a national drug-cost scheme at a higher level compared with previous years.

'Injecting politics into NIH': Senators drill Jay Bhattacharya in hearing over $18B budget cut proposal

During a Senate hearing, National Institutes of Health Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., described the past few months as “bumpy," while underscoring Congress’ role in approving a budget and taking full responsibility for the agency’s move away from “politicized science.”

Genentech lays off 143 workers at South San Francisco campus

Genentech is letting go of 143 employees who are based out of the company's headquarters in South San Francisco.

Omnipods, assemble! Insulet joins forces with Marvel for comic book starring hero with Type 1 diabetes

With great power comes great responsibility, and Insulet, accordingly, is using its influence in the diabetes management space to improve the representation of people living with diabetes.

Boston Scientific aims to consolidate, expand its Minnesota footprints: report

Outside Minneapolis, Boston Scientific has put one of its locations up for sale while expanding another nearby, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.

BMS expands radiopharma pipeline via RayzeBio's $1.3B prostate cancer drug deal

Bristol Myers Squibb, via its RayzeBio unit, is handing out $350 million in upfront cash for a phase 1-stage radiopharmaceutical therapy and diagnostic for prostate cancer.

Merck KGaA's MilliporeSigma teams with Simtra in ADC manufacturing partnership

While the race is on to develop antibody-drug conjugate cancer treatments, so too is the competition to manufacture them. Hoping to gain an edge in the rapidly growing market are MilliporeSigma and Simtra BioPharma Solutions, which have forged a five-year partnership.

Novo Nordisk finds Deep Apple ripe for obesity R&D, inking $812M deal to go beyond incretins

Novo Nordisk has planted another seed to fuel the blossoming of its obesity business, inking an $812 million deal with Deep Apple Therapeutics to access small molecules against a non-incretin GPCR target.

Tandem Diabetes Care to link insulin pump with Abbott’s upcoming glucose-ketone wearable

Tandem Diabetes Care will link its AID systems with an upcoming monitor from Abbott that aims to track both blood glucose and ketone levels.

Eli Lilly works out $650M Juvena pact to find muscle-boosting drugs

Eli Lilly is beefing up muscle health R&D, partnering with Juvena Therapeutics in a deal that includes an upfront fee and more than $650 million in milestones.
 
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