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Digital

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center helipad and The Jerusalem Press Club

Israel’s MedTech and health innovation landscape: Part one –...

Part One of a series of articles – Israel’s MedTech and health innovation landscape: From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - looking at resilient progress there.

R&D

Representation of bipolar and other mental health disorders, Janus concept

The role of the opioid pathway in schizophrenia and bipolar ...

Psychiatry has spent decades focused on dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and glutamate.

Digital

Man shakes woman's hand in signal of a business deal

Changing Faces: Digital and supplier, January 2026

The life sciences supplier and digital health sectors witnessed significant leadership movements in January.

R&D

steaming nebulizer mask in hand instructing African American daughter

Advancing RSV and hMPV research through human challenge tria...

Human challenge trials offer a complementary approach, and hVIVO has been at the forefront of this field for decades.

Patients

Interview at JPM26 with Alexander Schneider

New hope for ovarian cancer, with Alexander Schneider

Alexander Schneider, CEO of CureLab Oncology, shares how his company’s drug candidate for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer is named after his wife.

R&D

Case Study: MHRA

Following MHRA approval of a clinical trial, a study on Nuwiq, a recombinant FVIII therapy for the treatment of haemophilia A, can proceed.

R&D

pharmaphorum podcast episode 132a - woman on her phone listening to headphones

In vitro gametogenesis: the science has to be right, and it ...

In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) holds much potential for same-sex couples and women of a more advanced age struggling with infertility, but the question is whether we’re quite there yet.

Digital

Is digital therapeutics innovation enough for a sustainable ...

Treatments emerging from the digital therapeutics space were once greeted with optimism, due to the potential to aid patients’ health through technology, rather than pharmaceuticals.

Sales & Marketing

Swiss train speeding across bridge against landscape background

A fast start to 2026 signals continued investor confidence i...

Key factors in Switzerland’s success that could make other European life sciences hubs more attractive to investors.

Sales & Marketing

Woman shakes man's hand in hiring process

Changing Faces: Agency and consultancy, January 2026

The pharmaceutical services sector saw a flurry of new executive hires last month, spanning agencies, consultancies, investment firms & a few others.

Digital

Israel’s MedTech and health innovation landscape: Part one –...

Part One of a series of articles – Israel’s MedTech and health innovation landscape: From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - looking at resilient progress there.

Digital

Changing Faces: Digital and supplier, January 2026

The life sciences supplier and digital health sectors witnessed significant leadership movements in January.

Market Access

Biotech leaders: ‘They're shoving this industry into the arm...

At the Biotech Showcase during JPM Week, biotech leaders expressed frustration at the US's lack of concern about Chinese biotech progress.

Market Access

European biopharma at a crossroads

If Europe can bridge its operational gaps while leveraging its scientific base, it can carve out a distinctive and sustainable leadership position.

Oncology

A cancer treatment modality that prioritises QoL, with Ben Z...

Immuneering's Ben Zeskind explains how, by focusing on quality of life as well as quantity, they've created a drug for pancreatic cancer.

Oncology

Improving breast cancer outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

New funding from The Pfizer Foundation will support breast cancer efforts in Kenya by the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH).

Oncology

Engineering “smarter” cells, with Tim Lu

Senti Bio's Tim Lu discusses “logic-gated” cells, which have multiple receptors allowing them to attack cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone