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Pfizer and Novo Nordisk battle for obesity market dominance
Novo Nordisk’s “bold” $6.5 billion bid subject to a final verdict by Metsera’s board of directors.
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FDA draft guidance on biosimilars offers “regulatory relief”
US agency follows in footsteps of European Medicines Agency (EMA) in efforts to streamline biosimilar development.
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Lilly AI factory to accelerate pharmaceutical manufacturing and development
Pharma giant plans to harness its “decades of data” and use AI to set a new scientific standard that accelerates pharmaceutical innovation.
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Taiwan talks evidence-driven TCM at CPHI Frankfurt
Scientific and commercial opportunity for pharma companies looking to source, co develop and manufacture traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
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AI/ML investment strong as UK biotech weathers economic strain
With Q3 2025 venture capital figures representing “a fragile moment” for the UK biotech sector, BIA says sustained government action is needed to secure its global competitive edge.
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Novartis strengthens neuroscience pipeline with $12bn Avidity acquisition
Deal to advance potential first-in-class RNA therapeutics focused on genetic neuromuscular diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Lilly’s baricitinib exhibits paediatric potential in major alopecia areata study
Results from the phase III study signify a successful collaboration with biopharma firm Incyte.
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Ipsen strikes €1bn deal to acquire French biotech ImCheck Therapeutics
The move will boost its oncology pipeline, adding a potential first-in-class anti-BTN3A monoclonal antibody for acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Keytruda post-surgery could halt return of distant tumours in rare skin cancer
Merck & Co’s anti-PD-1 immunotherapy showed evidence at ESMO of its ability to prevent cancer recurrence in Merkel cell carcinoma.
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Europe unveils science strategy as it looks to become an ‘AI continent’
Establishes Resource for AI Science in Europe and eyes frontier AI models and autonomous agentic AI for pharma.
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Merck & Co starts phase IIb study of tulisokibart in rheumatoid arthritis
The study is one of three to start, along with those in hidradenitis suppurativa and radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.
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Automating quality control testing for radiopharmaceutical production
7 October 2025 | By Rapid Micro Biosystems
This webinar showcased a rapid microbial method that can help to address the time to result challenge posed by short shelf-life radiopharmaceuticals.
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AstraZeneca and Daiichi’s Datroway gets phase III breast cancer boost
Companies’ first-line ambitions for the antibody drug conjugate buoyed by the TROPION-Breast02 clinical trial.
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Takeda withdraws from clinical cell therapy activities
The company will instead focus its attention on advancing candidates for modalities that include biologics and ADCs.
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Call for greater investment and innovation from pharma to address RSV
Despite progress from AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Merck & Co, GSK and Pfizer, analysts say effective respiratory syncytial virus treatments are still needed.
