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Under pressure, Novo lays out blockbuster launch plans

Novo has revealed a plan to launch five or more blockbusters between now and 2030 that it hopes will grow annual revenues by around $23bn.

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Alzheimer's research is moving toward more selective targets

As we mark World Alzheimer’s Day, it is worth reflecting on the progress made in recent years.

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

Boardrooms, Advisory Boards, and governance teams saw plenty of activity in August.

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Which biotechs have raised new VC financing this week?

This week's biggest biotech venture financings include sizeable rounds for Sling Therapeutics, Circle Pharma, and RegCell.

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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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Lilly swoops on Morphic to claim IBD drug candidate

Eli Lilly has bolstered its inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) pipeline with a $3.2 billion bid to acquire Morphic and its mid-stage oral integrin therapy MORF-057.

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Myricx raises £90m after pivot to ADCs for cancer

UK biotech Myricx Bio has tapped into the red-hot interest among investors for companies working on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for cancer, raising £90 million ($115 million) in a first

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Study finds GLP-1 drugs may cut obesity-related cancers

Potentially adding to a lengthening list of positive health benefits of GLP-1 agonist drugs, a new study has suggested they may also reduce the risk of a bevy of cancers associated with bei

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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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Under pressure, Novo lays out blockbuster launch plans

Novo has revealed a plan to launch five or more blockbusters between now and 2030 that it hopes will grow annual revenues by around $23bn.

News

Which biotechs have raised new VC financing this week?

This week's biggest biotech venture financings include sizeable rounds for Sling Therapeutics, Circle Pharma, and RegCell.

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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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Alzheimer's research is moving toward more selective targets

As we mark World Alzheimer’s Day, it is worth reflecting on the progress made in recent years.

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

Boardrooms, Advisory Boards, and governance teams saw plenty of activity in August.

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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.

Deep Dive

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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...

White Papers

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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’.