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Bavarian Nordic has found its new CEO

Six months after Paul Chaplin said he was stepping down as CEO of Bavarian Nordic, the Danish biopharma has named Tarja Stenvall to the role.

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Novo taps Anthropic's Claude AI for drug discovery

Novo adds Anthropic AI models and Claude Science to its drug discovery toolkit in a bid to become "the world's most AI-driven healthcare company."

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Legend Biotech names ex-Novartis exec as CEO

Cell therapy developer Legend Biotech has named Ingrid Zhang as its new chief executive, ending its search for new leadership.

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TikTok parent ByteDance raises cash for drug AI spinout Anew

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, best known as the parent of TikTok, has completed a $290m financing for its AI drug discovery spinout Anew Labs.

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AI spots drugs that may be repurposed for priority pathogen

Researchers have used AI algorithms to sift through thousands of drug molecules and identify some with activity against problem pathogen S pneumoniae.

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Merck drug for rare tumour hits phase 3 target

Merck KGaA is shaping up to take on Daiichi Sankyo and Ono Pharma in the market for tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT) therapies after its drug candidate pimicotinib cleared a phase 3 tr

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Chasing $80bn sales target, AZ unveils $3.5bn US investment

AstraZeneca plans to invest a whopping $3.5 billion to expand its R&D and manufacturing operations in the US by 2026, as part of a drive to raise its revenues to $80 billion by the end

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Growing threat of AMR: UN calls for urgent global action

In response to the rise of AMR, world leaders recently convened at the United Nations General Assembly to forge a landmark commitment, setting ambitious targets and funding initiatives to c

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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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Bavarian Nordic has found its new CEO

Six months after Paul Chaplin said he was stepping down as CEO of Bavarian Nordic, the Danish biopharma has named Tarja Stenvall to the role.

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Novo taps Anthropic's Claude AI for drug discovery

Novo adds Anthropic AI models and Claude Science to its drug discovery toolkit in a bid to become "the world's most AI-driven healthcare company."

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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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Navigating Change: Key Industry Insights at PHARMAP 2026

PHARMAP returns in 2027 in Berlin, Germany, with Bayer as the Host Sponsor

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Changing Faces: Pharma and biotech hires, August 2026

August brought another wave of leadership changes across biotech, pharma, and research organisations.

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Trial complexity is the new normal

When operationalised effectively, RBQM can support earlier risk detection and more targeted quality improvement.

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Mosquitoes, malaria, and UK R&D viral disease vaccine invest...

The UK must sustain investment in malaria R&D as it faces a “perfect storm” of challenges, including mosquito resistance to existing tools.

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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.

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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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CAMP4 on a new class of ASO in gene under expression

CAMP4 Therapeutics CFO Kelly Gold discusses developments in antisense oligonucleotides and CAMP4’s CMP-002 study

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Decentralisation by design: Bringing the trial closer withou...

In the third episode of the IQVIA-sponsored PSCS leadership video series, Sinead Callinan, Head of Patient Centred Delivery, discusses DCTs.

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Patient population first: the strategy behind country decisi...

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IQVIA on reducing complexity and workload for clinical trial...

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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’.