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Deep Dive // Emerging biotechBiotech startups are built on venture capital. Track funding rounds here.
After a weekslong run of smaller financings, 11 of the 16 rounds tracked by BioPharma Dive since late March surpassed $100 million in proceeds, and two topped $200 million.
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Sponsored by Middlesex CountyThe capacity crunch in biopharma is a location problem
Cell and gene therapies aren’t limited by ideas—they’re limited by where they’re built. See how “ready-now” locations change the math on scaling.
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News roundupFDA to reevaluate spurned cell therapy; Under-the-skin Leqembi review extended
Pierre Fabre claims to now be “aligned” with U.S. regulators on the path forward for a twice-rejected treatment. Elsewhere, Argenx swapped CEOs and Blackstone made a $250 million biotech investment.
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Lilly, Gilead lead pharma’s M&A boom
Deal volume in 2026 is substantially outpacing last year, and activity is being driven by interest in cancer and autoimmune disease drugs.
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Lilly to invest extra $4.5B across Indiana manufacturing
The Indianapolis-based company expanded its spend to ensure it can meet growing demand for its weight-loss drugs.
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Angelini to buy Catalyst in $4B play for rare neuro drugs
The acquisition hands the Italian pharma a group of medicines approved to treat various CNS disorders and gives it wider market access in the U.S.
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Entrada shares dive as Duchenne results disappoint
While the company claimed a victory, analysts said data from a Phase 1/2 study fell short of expectations. Entrada shares subsequently tumbled more than 50%.
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Bayer to buy Perfuse for up to $2.45B, bolstering eye drug pipeline
Centered around a glaucoma therapy in mid-stage testing, the deal is Bayer’s first drug company acquisition in several years and potentially its largest since it purchased AskBio in 2020.
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Obesity drugsNovo hikes guidance on Wegovy pill’s fast sales start
In its latest earnings report, the Danish drugmaker said sales and profit should shrink less than the company originally anticipated thanks to strong prescription numbers for its new obesity pill.
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Roche to acquire digital pathology firm PathAI in deal potentially worth over $1B
Roche plans to offer PathAI’s tools as part of an effort to improve cancer diagnosis and tailored treatment.
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Deep Dive // IPO windowBiotech IPOs are the industry’s lifeblood. Track how they’re performing.
Including Odyssey, nine of the 11 biotechs to go public in 2026 have raised at least $250 million in their initial stock sales — the most in a single year since 2021.
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Avalo shares spike on skin drug data; BioNTech to cut staff
Avalo reported study success in what’s proven to be a tough-to-treat skin disease. Elsewhere, BioNTech announced plans to close multiple plants and Madrigal picked up an RNA-based drug for MASH.
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Emerging biotechCellCentric raises $220M for a ‘transformative’ multiple myeloma medicine
A Series D round led by Venrock will support an ongoing Phase 2 study, and planned Phase 3 trial, of an oral drug the biotech sees as a differentiated option for patients with persistent disease.
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Deep DiveBiotech M&A is accelerating. Track the deals that are happening here.
Catalyst is already the fourth biotech acquisition this month, continuing an acceleration of bigger-ticket deals that’s put 2026 on a faster pace than every year since at least 2018.
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Cytokinetics heart drug scores in closely watched trial
Myqorzo’s success in “non-obstructive” hypertrophic cardiomyopathy separates it from Bristol Myers Squibb’s rival Camzyos and opens up a multibillion-dollar market opportunity.
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Emerging biotechCytospire hauls in $83M for a new type of T cell engager
The British biotechnology startup is making "pan-gamma delta” T cell engagers it says can address the limitations of similar, existing therapies.
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China competitionDrugs from China are reshaping biotech. Track the licensing deals here.
GSK could pay up to roughly $1 billion in a licensing deal for an experimental oligonucleotide drug SiranBio has been developing for cardiometabolic diseases.
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Vertex earnings get muted investor response
While overall revenue fell just shy of Wall Street forecasts, sales of the gene editing medicine Casgevy and pain drug Journavx missed analyst estimates by double-digit percentages.
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Viridian data lift prospects for thyroid eye disease drug
Whereas earlier Phase 3 results disappointed Wall Street, new findings in people with “chronic” disease were viewed by analysts as much more competitive with Amgen’s Tepezza.
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Immune resetUCB to acquire Candid in $2.2B bet on bispecifics for autoimmune diseases
The buyout involves a portfolio of antibody drugs Candid licensed from China-based biotechs and that UCB sees as part of the “next wave” of care for immunological conditions.
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With $97M, Latus pursues a different kind of Huntington’s gene therapy
The therapy is part of a plan to develop gene therapies that can be efficiently delivered at lower doses, enabling them to be used against more than just “ultra-rare” conditions.
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Celcuity strengthens case for ASCO-spotlighted breast cancer drug
The new data could support a broader approval submission for a therapy that is already under review and set to be showcased at the year’s biggest meeting for cancer research.
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Deep Dive // Emerging biotechBiotech investors gamble on M&A. Some drugmakers are betting on themselves instead.
Young biotechs usually get acquired instead of profitably selling their own medicines. A growing number are proving they can, which could make the sector more broadly appealing to investors, some say.
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IPO windowTwo biotechs raise a combined $556M in latest spurt of IPOs
Seaport Therapeutics and Hemab Therapeutics on Thursday became the latest drugmakers to debut on Wall Street, continuing a stretch of large IPOs this year that collectively raised almost $3.2 billion.
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Arvinas’ ‘Protac’ breast cancer drug cleared by FDA
Known as Veppanu, the drug is the first of its kind to get to market. But Arvinas and partner Pfizer are still searching for a new partner to sell it.
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News roundupBristol Myers’ legacy lift, Biogen’s blue skies and Regeneron’s murky outlook
Investors are still waiting to see whether Bristol Myers and Regeneron’s pipelines will deliver, while Biogen was lifted by better-than-expected results for newer drugs like Leqembi and Skyclarys.
