The French pharmaceutical giant said it’s in negotiations to sell a controlling stake of Opella to the private equity firm CD&R, in a deal that reportedly could be worth more than $16 billion.
The offering will fund testing of a potential rival to Amgen’s Tezpire and is already the sixth for an immune drug developer this year, the most since 2021.
In a letter to Pfizer’s board, the activist investor claimed former CEO Ian Read and CFO Frank D’Amelio were pressured to abandon a Starboard-led attempt to change the company’s direction.
Seven young boys given Bluebird's Skysona later developed blood cancers, findings that could shape how doctors balance the gene therapy’s risks against its benefit.
Within the pharmaceutical industry, a multibillion-dollar race is underway to top Novo Nordisk’s and Eli Lilly’s in-demand obesity drugs. Dozens of companies, large and small, have set out to test ...
AlphaFold’s developers were awarded science’s top prize. Elsewhere, J&J is shuttering an intriguing cancer study and Alnylam is asking for approval of a drug that could rival a Pfizer blockbuster.
Biotechnology company Purespring Therapeutics has raised about $105 million to fund its development of gene therapies for diseases of the kidney.
In a breakthrough for cancer research, Medgnosis has leveraged its state-of-the-art generative AI (GenAI) system to transform drug discovery. This GenAI targets both druggable and undruggable proteins ...
The latest deal in AI drug discovery is a twist on the usual big pharma-startup collaboration model, with Insitro licensing technology and Lilly eligible for royalties.
ProPharma, a leading global provider of regulatory, clinical, and compliance services for the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce it has won the prestigious CPHI Pharma Award for Regulatory ...
The company, which is building a database of biological interactions found in nature, revealed $60 million in funding and a collaboration with David Liu’s lab.
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