| Today’s Big NewsDec 18, 2023 |
| By Max Bayer Biotech investors are licking their wounds after a year that's likely to have the lowest level of new fundraising in four years. Will 2024 finally be the rebound year? |
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By Kevin Dunleavy The FDA has signed off on Astellas and Pfizer’s Padcev in combination with Merck’s Keytruda as a first-line treatment for bladder cancer. The full endorsement, which follows an accelerated nod eight months ago, puts the combo on course to replace chemotherapy as the standard of care in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer. |
By Andrea Park With only a week left in President Biden’s review of a proposed import ban on Apple Watches containing a pulse oximetry feature, Apple is preemptively complying with the sales stoppage. |
By Angus Liu GSK has more positive data to report in endometrial cancer as the company's PD-1/PARP combination turned in a trial win. The combination could represent a threat to a rival therapy at AstraZeneca. |
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By Gabrielle Masson Against a backdrop of a tough funding environment, nearly half of biotechs are using partnerships with Big Pharmas as a financing method, according to a survey commissioned by CRO Icon. |
By Conor Hale The DNA sequencing giant announced it will aim to finalize the details of the divestiture within the first six months of the new year—whether it be through a sale to an interested suitor or by having Grail take itself public. |
By Zoey Becker The company opted to cut the phase 3 Relativity-123 study after an analysis found that the trial was unlikely to achieve its primary endpoints in microsatellite-stable patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. |
By Gabrielle Masson The Novo Nordisk Foundation is dedicating up to $260 million to create new or improved vaccines for serious respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB) and the flu. |
By Andrea Park Less than two years after Zimmer Biomet spun out its spine and dental businesses into a separate, standalone company, the resulting entity, ZimVie, is already undergoing another transformation. |
By Zoey Becker Once again, shareholders with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility are raising access concerns in proposals to several top drugmakers. |
By Nick Paul Taylor It's decision time for Point Biopharma investors. Having dragged out the Eli Lilly buyout, investors now have phase 3 radiopharmaceutical data to compare to Novartis’ results—and days to choose whether to cash out or reject the existing offer. |
By Andrea Park Even after decades of experience developing eye-related devices under its belt, Carl Zeiss Meditec is still looking to expand its ophthalmic portfolio. |
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| The Fierce 50 honorees range from tech innovators to researchers developing novel therapies to providers on the frontlines of changing care. This week on "The Top Line," senior editor Paige Minemyer sat down with staff writers Dave Muoio and Anastassia Gliadkovskaya as well as senior editor Heather Landi to discuss a few of the honorees in more detail. |
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