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The top biopharma conferences in 2025 | BioPharma Dive
Oct 1, 2024 · American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting. April 25 - 30, 2025 Chicago. While the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s meeting often gets billed as the field’s largest conference, AACR has become an equally major gathering for cancer research, particularly earlier-stage findings on new drug mechanisms of action or treatment modalities.
Drugmakers are racing to find the next Wegovy. These obesity …
Oct 10, 2024 · Within the pharmaceutical industry, a multibillion-dollar race is underway to top Novo Nordisk’s and Eli Lilly’s in-demand obesity drugs. Dozens of companies, large and small, have set out to test experimental medicines they claim could be more potent, convenient or have fewer side effects than Novo’s Wegovy and Lilly’s Zepbound.
Biotech IPOs are the industry’s lifeblood. Track how they’re …
Dec 3, 2024 · Initial public offerings make the biotechnology industry tick. Stock listings give young companies the funding they need to develop their drugs, and their venture backers an opportunity to earn a return. For much of the past decade, biotechs found Wall Street receptive to their pitches. Public ...
Biotech startups are built on venture capital. Track funding rounds ...
Nov 21, 2024 · Drug development is an expensive, risky endeavor. Biotechnology companies just starting out are many years away from seeing profits, if ever. So more often than not, a startup’s success turning science into medicines can come down to how much money it raises.
The biopharma industry outlook on 2024: Guarded optimism for a …
Jan 16, 2024 · Guarded optimism seems to be the mood of the biopharmaceutical industry to start 2024.. Last year brought a stock market slide and layoffs for more than 150 drug companies. Financial and regulatory headwinds, like the March collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and a more strident Federal Trade Commission, further weighed on the sector.. There are now some signs of a turnaround, from a rebounding ...
Drug patents protect pharma profits. Track when they’ll expire.
May 8, 2024 · Patents reward drugmakers for their inventions and, effectively, the large sums of money they invest in research and development. The legal monopoly that patents provide keeps generic copies at bay for many years, even decades, and allows pharmaceutical companies to set higher prices than they otherwise could.
Zepbound, Mounjaro back in supply as Lilly resolves shortage
Aug 5, 2024 · Dive Insight: Lilly has been pouring money into expanding its manufacturing capacity for tirzepatide by opening production at more of its existing facilities, buying factories and building new ones.Still, it hasn’t been able to make tirzepatide fast enough, as demand for the drug and Novo Nordisk’s rival medicines Ozempic and Wegovy soared.
Biotech M&A has plateaued. Track the deals that are happening …
Dec 30, 2024 · Methodology. For this database, BioPharma Dive looked only at companies developing human medicines. The mergers and acquisitions included in the database are limited by certain criteria, namely that they must be for an entire company — not for product licensings, options to acquire or for partial equity stakes.
5 FDA decisions to watch in the fourth quarter | BioPharma Dive
Oct 1, 2024 · In testing, the vanza triple was found to be "non-inferior" to Trikafta on a measure of lung function commonly used in cystic fibrosis studies. It also proved superior to Trikafta on a secondary measure of sweat chloride, which is associated with the function of proteins that are mutated in people with the disease.