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Servier snaps up cancer biotech Day One in $2.5bn deal

Servier has made a takeover offer for Day One and its fast-growing glioma therapy Ojemda, as it pitches to drive sales above €10bn by 2030.

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Zealand hit as Roche-partnered obesity drug disappoints

Shares in Zealand lost a third of their value today, after the biotech reported phase 2 data with Roche-partnered weight-loss therapy petrelintide.

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Alnylam bets on Tenaya RNAi tech, and other licensing news

This week's round-up of pharma licensing deals features alliances involving Tenaya Therapeutics, Sino Bio, Antengene, and A2A Pharma.

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PepGen slumps as FDA places hold on lead drug

Shares in PepGen fell sharply after the FDA placed a partial clinical hold on its lead drug for rare neuromuscular disease DM1.

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Can GLP-1 drugs help tackle addiction?

New research has lent weight to the intriguing idea that GLP-1 agonists may help people with substance use disorders break their addiction.

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Daiichi Sankyo taps Depixus to speed RNA drug discovery

Daiichi Sankyo has made the development of RNA-based therapeutics and vaccines one of the pillars of its R&D operations and has turned to start-up Depixus to accelerat

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Genentech confirms Magargee as permanent CEO

Roche’s Genentech unit has looked internally for its new chief executive, appointing Ashley Magargee to the role following the departure of Alexander Hardy last month.

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Digitised pathology resource will speed HIV cancer R&D

A collection of clinical specimens that has been gathered from people living with HIV for almost 30 years has been given a digital makeover with the help of computational

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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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Servier snaps up cancer biotech Day One in $2.5bn deal

Servier has made a takeover offer for Day One and its fast-growing glioma therapy Ojemda, as it pitches to drive sales above €10bn by 2030.

News

Zealand hit as Roche-partnered obesity drug disappoints

Shares in Zealand lost a third of their value today, after the biotech reported phase 2 data with Roche-partnered weight-loss therapy petrelintide.

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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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Clinical Trials Round-Up – Jan to Feb 2026

Read how Jan-Feb '26 offered a revealing cross-section of how R&D is evolving across therapy areas.

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 248, Andrew Mackinnon, Medable

AI in clinical development & ‘white space’, with Andrew Mack...

Andrew Mackinnon, senior vice president and executive general manager at Medable, discusses leveraging AI to transform & accelerate development.

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Rare disease at an inflection point: Why the next wave will ...

As rare disease becomes more competitive, information parity is disappearing.

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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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Beyond obesity: How GLP-1s are changing the game for hundred...

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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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evolution of clinical research in the UK

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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

Podcasts

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AI in clinical development & ‘white space’, with Andrew Mack...

Andrew Mackinnon, senior vice president and executive general manager at Medable, discusses leveraging AI to transform & accelerate development.

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JPM2026 wrap-up with Nicole Raleigh and Jonah Comstock

On JPM2026 and healthcare investment today, with Jonah Comst...

Editor-in-chief Jonah Comstock sat down with pharmaphorum web editor Nicole Raleigh to discuss JPM2026.

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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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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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