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Mar 18, 2024

The top 10 pharma R&D budgets for 2023

J&J-allied Contineum files for IPO to take fight to BMS, Roche and more

Chinese biotech's MASH candidate reduces liver fat in phase 2 trial

After calling on Congress to fund women's health, Biden directs agencies to boost R&D

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The top 10 pharma R&D budgets for 2023

By Gabrielle Masson

After nearly a decade as No. 1, Roche was finally knocked off our list’s top spot, sent spinning down the ladder by a whopping $30 billion from Merck & Co.

J&J-allied Contineum files for IPO to take fight to BMS, Roche and more

By Nick Paul Taylor

The biotech IPO class of 2024 could be getting another member. Contineum Therapeutics is the latest company to test the waters, filing paperwork to raise money for phase 2 clinical trials of its lead prospect and a Johnson & Johnson-partnered molecule.

Chinese biotech's MASH candidate reduces liver fat in phase 2 trial

By Max Bayer

Chipscreen Biosciences' metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) candidate reduced patients' liver fat levels, adding further momentum to drugs aimed at the condition.

After calling on Congress to fund women's health, Biden directs agencies to boost R&D

By Annalee Armstrong

Ten days after asking Congress to fund women’s health research with $12 billion, President Joe Biden is doing what he can to boost investment via an executive order to expand and improve research on women’s health.

UPDATED: Despite early death concerns, FDA advisers back J&J and Legend's Carvykti and BMS' Abecma for earlier myeloma

By Angus Liu

Even though the BCMA CAR-T therapies Carvykti and Abecma showed a potential problem of early patient deaths in two separate trials, experts on the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee still believe that the drugs' long-term benefits outweigh their risks.

Pfizer set to collect roughly $2.6B in selloff of Haleon shares, reducing stake from 32% to 24%

By Kevin Dunleavy

Two months after GSK sold a significant chunk of its stake in Haleon, Pfizer is prepared to do the same with a larger selloff, according to the consumer healthcare company. Pfizer is set to reduce its stake in Haleon from 32% to 24% by selling 630 million shares in a public offering.

Oxford Nanopore taps SeqOne for rare disease DNA diagnostic partnership

By Conor Hale

The goal will be to provide an end-to-end platform that applies extra-long nanopore sequencing reads to whole genomes—initially in order to help identify variants associated with rare diseases, before expanding the project’s scope into cancer testing.

Novartis lays out $256M for antibody plant expansion in Singapore, plots 100 hires

By Fraiser Kansteiner

Novartis broke ground on a $256 million expansion of its biopharmaceutical production facility in Singapore. The project will introduce digitalization and automation at the site in a bid to boost manufacturing productivity and to help upskill the company’s workforce.

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