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Madrigal builds in MASH with $4.4bn+ Ribo alliance

Already sitting on a blockbuster therapy for MASH, Madrigal has beefed up its pipeline with six siRNA candidates licensed from China's Ribo.

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UK moves ahead with GP patient data sharing plan

The UK government has asked the NHS to start putting together the platforms to allow anonymised primary care patient data to be used by researchers.

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Kailera, Hengrui stake claim to oral weight loss category

Chasing Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, Kailera and Hengrui have reported 12.1% weight loss in phase 2 with their oral GIP/GLP-1 agonist ribupatide.

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Takeda signs $1.7bn AI alliance with Iambic

Iambic bags another pharma partner, Takeda, which plans to use its AI platform to find drugs for cancer, gastrointestinal, and inflammatory disorders.

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AMR and vaccines: Can universal coverage avert a post-antibi...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis.

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Lundbeck drops in on epilepsy drug with $2.6bn Longboard bid

Neuroscience specialist Lundbeck has agreed to buy Longboard Pharmaceuticals for $2.6 billion, expanding its pipeline with an epilepsy drug tipped as a future blockbuster.

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Lilly pledges £279m to UK for biotech hub and obesity plan

Eli Lilly has said it is prepared to invest £279 million ($364 million) in the UK and work with the government to tackle serious public health challenges, including obesity.

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CEPI-backed trial of Rift Valley fever jab starts in Kenya

A promising vaccine candidate for Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been advanced into a phase 2 trial in Kenya, the first time that a shot has reached this stage of development in a country wher

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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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Madrigal builds in MASH with $4.4bn+ Ribo alliance

Already sitting on a blockbuster therapy for MASH, Madrigal has beefed up its pipeline with six siRNA candidates licensed from China's Ribo.

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UK moves ahead with GP patient data sharing plan

The UK government has asked the NHS to start putting together the platforms to allow anonymised primary care patient data to be used by researchers.

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Touring Chiesi's vision for the future at the new Biotech Ce...

Following an invite to fly into Parma, Italy to witness first-hand the press launch of the considerable structure – black-painted and as yet under construction, gigantic cranes and all – th

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Vir awarded $1 billion multi-year BARDA influenza contract

The US Government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has made an

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AMR and vaccines: Can universal coverage avert a post-antibi...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis.

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Treating the chronic diseases GLP-1s miss, with Laurent Auda...

Prive Bio CEO Laurent Audaly spoke with pharmaphorum during the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, discussing GLP-1s in the cardiometabolic space.

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Changing Faces: Pharma and biotech, January 2026

The new year brought a slew of new faces in the pharma and biotech world, especially in the top jobs, with a number of CEO changes at biotech firms.

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Deep Dive: Research and Development 2025

Every breakthrough in medicine, every new treatment that changes lives, starts with research.

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Breaking through financial barriers to clinical trials: How ...

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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.

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The evolution of clinical research: Embracing new delivery m...

The UK is welcoming a new era of clinical trial delivery, evolving beyond the traditional site-centric approach to also embrace remote, decentralised, virtual, and hybrid trials and enablin

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 239, Dr Jorg Schuttrumpf

Shaping the future of immunodeficiency care, with Dr Jörg Sc...

Dr Jörg Schüttrumpf, Chief Scientific Innovation Officer of Grifols, discusses advancing immunoglobulin (or IG) treatment for immune disorders.

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 235, Markus Vossman, Illumina

On genomics, NGS, and doing much more good than bad, with Ma...

Markus Vossman, Germany general manager at Illumina, discusses innovative genomic applications and projects in the region.

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 230, Benedict Cross, PhoreMost

Harnessing the cell's own degradation machinery, with Benedi...

Benedict Cross, Chief Technology Officer at PhoreMost, discusses targeted protein degradation.

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Treating the chronic diseases GLP-1s miss, with Laurent Auda...

Prive Bio CEO Laurent Audaly spoke with pharmaphorum during the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, discussing GLP-1s in the cardiometabolic space.

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The long-delayed promise of the microbiome, with Sam Possemi...

Sam Possemiers, CEO of MRM Health, believes that the microbiome space is finally coming into maturity.

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Allogeneic cell therapy isn’t dead, with Brian Culley

Lineage Cell Therapeutics' Brian Culley discusses allogeneic cell therapy, even beyond the traditional cell therapy realm of oncology.

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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’.

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Life Sciences Industry Report - Biologics and Generics

The importance of biosimilars only continues to grow, driven by the potential savings they are able to deliver to healthcare systems.

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Life Sciences Industry Report - Rare Disease Space

There are some 7,000 known rare diseases in the world, yet, multiple challenges and unmet needs remain when it comes to therapies for these diseases.

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The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHA...

The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHARMAP) 2026 unites professionals to discuss the most recent trends of industry in Amsterdam

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5th mRNA-Based Therapeutics Summit Europe

The Summit is the leading European industry-focused forum dedicated to accelerating the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines

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10th Tumor Models Summit San Francisco

Join the West Coast's premier pharma and biotech gathering, the 10th Tumor Models Summit San Francisco, where innovation meets opportunity

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The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHA...

The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHARMAP) 2026 unites professionals to discuss the most recent trends of industry in Amsterdam

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5th mRNA-Based Therapeutics Summit Europe

The Summit is the leading European industry-focused forum dedicated to accelerating the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines

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10th Tumor Models Summit San Francisco

Join the West Coast's premier pharma and biotech gathering, the 10th Tumor Models Summit San Francisco, where innovation meets opportunity

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