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Wave's stock wavers on obesity drug data

Wave Life Sciences has said new clinical trial results with its non-incretin therapy for weight loss are positive – but investors don't seem to agree.

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Regulatory setback or scientific signal? The case for human-...

Exploring a systemic challenge in translating biological promise into reliable human efficacy and safety.

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Novo unveils first data for 'triple G' agonist in diabetes

Novo Nordisk has reported the first clinical data with its triple G agonist for diabetes, in China, as it starts an international trials programme.

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AI in drug discovery and development: news watch

Recent developments in the biopharma AI world include a big financing for Verily, and updates from Zealand, Latent Labs, Insilico, and BMS/insitro.

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Update: Rumour confirmed as MSD buys Terns for $6.7bn

MSD's glut of pipeline-boosting deals in the build-up to a looming patent cliff has continued with a $6.7bn bid to acquire Terns Pharma.

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Sanofi finds new Pompe disease therapy in Maze

Sanofi is already a big player in the Pompe disease market with injectable drugs like Nexviazyme and Myozyme/Lumizyme, but has now set its sights on an oral drug candidate

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Astellas cuts $5.9bn deal to buy Iveric Bio

Astellas Pharma has agreed its largest-ever acquisition, buying US biotech Iveric Bio in a deal that continues to build its presence in the ophthalmology sector,

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Reuters Pharma USA – Lung-I Cheng

Cell and gene therapies continue to be hot topics in the pharma world this year, and some companies are responding to the new treatment modalities with new business units.

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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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Wave's stock wavers on obesity drug data

Wave Life Sciences has said new clinical trial results with its non-incretin therapy for weight loss are positive – but investors don't seem to agree.

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Novo unveils first data for 'triple G' agonist in diabetes

Novo Nordisk has reported the first clinical data with its triple G agonist for diabetes, in China, as it starts an international trials programme.

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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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Regulatory setback or scientific signal? The case for human-...

Exploring a systemic challenge in translating biological promise into reliable human efficacy and safety.

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Interview at BIO-Europe 2026 with Robert Jacks

BIO-Europe Spring 2026: In conversation with Robert Jacks

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Supporting the ageing process, pharmaceutically

Longevity is not a consumer trend, but a pipeline strategy p...

Longevity is being framed as a consumer movement when, in reality, it is a pharmaceutical pipeline challenge.

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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

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 250, Rob DiCicco, Transcelerate

Making AI work where it matters, with Rob DiCicco

Rob DiCicco, vice president of portfolio management at Transcelerate Biopharma Inc, discusses barriers and the breakthroughs in making AI work.

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pharmaphorum podcast Episode 249, Michelle Werner, Alltrna

Treating genetic disease at scale with tRNA, with Michelle W...

Michelle Werner, Director of Alltrna, discusses her company’s approach of leveraging transfer RNA (tRNA) to shift the paradigm in genetic medicine.

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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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BIO-Europe Spring 2026: In conversation with Robert Jacks

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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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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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