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UEGW delegates hear of strides forward in IBD treatment

Trials of Lilly's Omvoh, Gilead's emvistegrast, Takeda's Entyvio, AbbVie's ABBV-466, and Sanofi/Teva's duvakitug are highlights of UEGW.

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AZ and Oracle team up on AI platform for clinical trials

AstraZeneca has launched a project with tech giant Oracle that will use AI and real-world data to improve clinical research and patient care.

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Roche offers $15bn for strategic-level deal with Hansoh

A year after signing a first deal with Hansoh worth up to $1.45 billion, Roche has returned for another that could be more than 10 times larger.

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Merck buys Silence and its siRNA pipeline for $1.3bn

Merck KGaA is slated to acquire UK-based Silence Therapeutics in a $1.3bn deal that would give it a late-stage drug for polycythemia vera.

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Changing Faces: Board of Director and Advisory Board hires, ...

September’s boardroom moves brought seasoned pharma executives, investors, and scientific leaders into new governance and advisory roles across the life sciences sector.

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Blueprint cashes in on the past to build its future

Blueprint Medicines has taken an unusual route to raising cash for its R&D pipeline – selling off some of the royalties from its already-approved medicines in return for a cash injectio

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AZ takes aim at BMS' lead in neoadjuvant NSCLC

Just weeks after Bristol-Myers Squibb claimed an FDA green light for Opdivo as a neoadjuvant therapy for non-small cell lung cancer, AstraZeneca is looking to encroach on its territory.

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Novartis eyes earlier use of PD-1 drug in oesophageal cancer

Novartis is still waiting for FDA approval of its PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor latecomer tislelizumab in relapsed oesophageal cancer, but is already planning a move the drug into the first-line se

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Synthetic control arms in clinical trials: Making it happen

Across the industry, pharma companies are turning to AI and real-world data to address many of the challenges of running clinical trials.

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How synthetic control arms are changing clinical trials

Clinical trials are involved, expensive, and have been done largely the same way for decades but with today’s technology all that can change. With drawn-out timelines and billions

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UEGW delegates hear of strides forward in IBD treatment

Trials of Lilly's Omvoh, Gilead's emvistegrast, Takeda's Entyvio, AbbVie's ABBV-466, and Sanofi/Teva's duvakitug are highlights of UEGW.

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AZ and Oracle team up on AI platform for clinical trials

AstraZeneca has launched a project with tech giant Oracle that will use AI and real-world data to improve clinical research and patient care.

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PHARMAP 2027 Addresses the Future of Pharmaceutical Manufact...

Senior pharma professionals gather in Berlin on 19-20 April for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHARMAP) 2027

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The Evolution Summit Announces September 2026 Program for Cl...

Marcus Evans announces The Evolution Summit, taking place September 28-29, 2026 at Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, Golf Club & Spa, San Diego, CA.

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Changing Faces: Board of Director and Advisory Board hires, ...

September’s boardroom moves brought seasoned pharma executives, investors, and scientific leaders into new governance and advisory roles across the life sciences sector.

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Digital box and pills, supply chain concept for pharma

From reactive to predictive: How data is redefining pharma l...

Pharmaceutical supply chains have more data at their fingertips than ever before. The challenge is turning that information into foresight.

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Removing barriers in treatment-resistant depression

pharmaphorum speaks with Hans Eriksson, psychiatrist and CMO of FundaMental Pharma, about why treatment resistance remains such a challenge.

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Cancer misinformation is a trust problem, not just an inform...

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The GLP-1 Reckoning

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Designing obesity trials around real lives: How patient cent...

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The future of cardiometabolic trials: From obesity to outcom...

Gain practical insight into how leading experts are designing the next generation of cardiometabolic trials in an upcoming webinar from hVIVO

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Exploring the future: Opportunities and challenges in cell a...

Rare disease treatment poses distinct challenges for physicians, patients, caregivers, and pharma companies.

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Beyond clinical: Boosting recruitment and retention with SDO...

The success of clinical trials hinges on a complex array of factors, many of which extend beyond traditional clinical care.

Podcasts

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 278, Shai Melcer, IIA

Bioconvergence & future human health, with Shai Melcer

Shai Melcer discusses bioconvergence, a multidisciplinary research and development approach that merges technologies.

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 272, Dr Harpreet Singh, Precision for Medicine

Understanding Operation Trialblazer, with Dr Harpreet Singh

Dr Harpreet Singh, CMO at Precision for Medicine, brings both an insider and outsider perspective to discussing Operation TRIALBLAZER.

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Prevent-Stop-Cure: Diagnostics & chronic liver disease, with...

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Boosting biotech in Basel – with Valentina Francia

pharmaphorum speaks with Valentina Francia from Basel Area Business and Innovation about why many life sciences startups are finding success in Basel.

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Beyond recruitment: Creating patient engagement that lasts

In the final episode of our patient- and site-centric solutions interview series, Zoltan Varga discusses the importance of PRE.

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LSX 2026 with Sam Possemiers, MRM Health

Taking the microbiome seriously, with Sam Possemiers

pharmaphorum catches up with MRM Health founder and CEO Sam Possemiers at LSX 2026.

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From Alzheimer’s disease research to the real-world setting:...

In a new white paper, Lucid Strategy Consulting suggests three key themes for pharma strategists seeking market leadership in the Alzheimer's space.

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A data-driven guide to small molecule drug discovery and dev...

A new white paper from Excelra takes a closer look at how discovery teams actually experience the small molecule development journey.

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A New Framework to Engineer Breakthrough Value for Medicines

A new white paper from Lumanity – ‘A New Framework to Engineer Breakthrough Value for Medicines: Value Inflection Points Across the Development Path’.