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Transform the Industry with Your Innovation! Submissions are now open for the Fierce Life Sciences Innovation Awards. Click to submit your entry and learn more about the categories and criteria. 
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September 25-27, 2024 | Philadelphia, PA Join the Fierce Clinical Summit, the premier event for clinical research and trial management. Explore topics in Clinical Operations, Quality, and DCT & Technology. Learn, network, and connect with peers to advance industry standards and innovations in clinical trials. Save up to $500 with Early Bird Rates. Register Now! 
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| By Angus Liu Pfizer is laying off 210 employees across two North Carolina manufacturing sites, including 150 people at the main facility involved in the recently failed DMD gene therapy program. |
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By James Waldron Earlier this month, Flagship Pioneering hinted that another Big Pharma may soon join its growing fleet of collaborators. Now, GSK has sailed into view. |
By Conor Hale In the game of moneyed musical chairs, it’s clear the tempo has slowed. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner Amid an influx of new drugs targeting one of the believed root causes of Alzheimer’s disease, a new symptomatic med has hit the scene, courtesy of Vancouver’s Alpha Cognition. |
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By James Waldron Boehringer Ingelheim is paying up to $1.3 billion for Nerio Therapeutics and a preclinical immune checkpoint inhibitor program that the German pharma giant hopes will become the “centerpiece” of its immune-oncology portfolio. |
By Conor Hale While it won't replace a colonoscopy, the Shield test is designed to funnel adults ages 45 and up at an average risk for the disease toward the exam. |
By Nick Paul Taylor Eli Lilly is putting out a new message to mark the start of the Olympic Games: “You only get one body, let's fight like hell for it.” The Big Pharma, which is partnered with Team USA, put the message across in a 60-second ad about how any body can get sick—but nobody needs to accept that. |
By Darren Incorvaia Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite famous for its cunning ways. This microbial manipulator can only reproduce inside of cats, so, if it finds itself in another mammalian host, like a rat, it alters the rodent’s behavior to make it less fearful of felines. Now, researchers have devised a way to engineer this single-celled saboteur for good. |
By Angus Liu With a phase 3 win claimed by AstraZeneca, the heated BTK inhibitor race might see its first triplet regimen in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. |
By Annalee Armstrong With venture investments pouring into biopharma, steady M&A deals and an increasingly widening IPO market, J.P. Morgan sees the industry returning to growth—finally. |
By Nick Paul Taylor Kaléo’s engagement with Brittany Mahomes’ 2 million Instagram followers has landed it in the FDA’s bad books. After seeing a Mahomes’ Instagram post that “entirely [omitted] all risk information,” the agency sent (PDF) an untitled letter asking Kaléo to change the promotion of its EpiPen rival Auvi-Q. |
By Eric Sagonowsky After a prior skirmish over tax policy in England, AstraZeneca is now butting heads with officials in the country over innovative drug access. |
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