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Sanofi forges new $8bn pact with Regeneron

Sanofi's long-running R&D alliance with Regeneron has gone up a gear with a new deal – including a $1bn upfront payment – that spans four new drugs.

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New Lilly combo tops tirzepatide for weight loss in diabetes

Eli Lilly's bid to dominate the next generation of weight-loss therapies has been strengthened by data on its new combination therapy EloraTZP.

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Apogee buy delivers eczema trial win for AbbVie

AbbVie's long-acting IL-13 inhibitor zumilokibart, part of its $10.9bn Apogee buy, has shown efficacy in atopic dermatitis and will move into phase 3.

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Lilly fleshes out triple G data in diabetes and obesity

Eli Lilly has revealed more data with its triple G agonist retatrutide, boosting its credentials as the next big thing in cardiometabolic diseases.

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uniQure falls on long-term Huntington's gene therapy data

uniQure's latest data drop for its gene therapy for Huntington's disease, under review in the US and UK, has spooked investors.

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Grünenthal’s non-opioid pain drug gets breakthrough tag

Grünenthal has been awarded a breakthrough designation from the FDA for its experimental painkiller resiniferatoxin, striving to become a treatment option that avoids the

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Novo Nordisk says oral Wegovy hits weight loss goal

Novo Nordisk has struck back in its growing rivalry with Eli Lilly in the obesity market, with data showing a higher-dose version of its oral version of weight loss drug W

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Ironwood wagers $1bn on VectivBio’s phase 3 readout

Gastrointestinal disease specialist Ironwood Pharma has agreed a $1 billion deal to buy VectivBio and its drug candidate for short bowel syndrome (SBS), betting on positiv

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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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Sanofi forges new $8bn pact with Regeneron

Sanofi's long-running R&D alliance with Regeneron has gone up a gear with a new deal – including a $1bn upfront payment – that spans four new drugs.

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New Lilly combo tops tirzepatide for weight loss in diabetes

Eli Lilly's bid to dominate the next generation of weight-loss therapies has been strengthened by data on its new combination therapy EloraTZP.

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PHARMAP 2027 Addresses the Future of Pharmaceutical Manufact...

Senior pharma professionals gather in Berlin on 19-20 April for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packaging Congress (PHARMAP) 2027

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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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Why every healthcare breakthrough creates a new education ch...

Patients will only benefit from a health breakthrough if HCPs and the systems around them are able to put it into practice.

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Turning recruitment potential into enrolment reality

In the fourth episode of the IQVIA-sponsored PSCS leadership video series, Karen Townsend, senior director of medical affairs discusses SEELs

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How AI simulation could help de-risk obesity and cardiometab...

AI life sciences models allow researchers to explore different patient populations, protocols, and development strategies before a study starts.

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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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Turning recruitment potential into enrolment reality

In the fourth episode of the IQVIA-sponsored PSCS leadership video series, Karen Townsend, senior director of medical affairs discusses SEELs

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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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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’.