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China competitionDrugs from China are reshaping biotech. Track the licensing deals here.
Including three deals announced Tuesday, Chinese drugmakers have formed more than 100 licensing pacts with their U.S. and European counterparts since the start of 2025, BioPharma Dive data show.
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Emerging biotechDraig bags another $65M to speed testing of brain drugs
The cash will support mid-stage trials of a prospect the company claims to have “best-in-disease” potential treating major depressive disorder.
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Freenome colorectal cancer test data improve on earlier results
The new study results could make Abbott, which has an agreement with Freenome to market the blood-based test, the dominant player in colorectal cancer screening, Evercore ISI analysts said.
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Trump administration5 FDA decisions to watch in the third quarter of 2026
A group of coming decisions could provide important insights into how flexible the agency is willing to be under new leadership.
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News roundupAgenus surges on study pivot; Apnimed lines up an IPO
Agenus is financially abandoning an ongoing study in late-line colorectal cancer. Elsewhere, an ebola vaccine began human testing and an important Bristol Myers medicine got an FDA decision date.
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GSK, Hansoh ADC extends survival in lung cancer study
GSK claimed the result was a first for an ADC aimed at the “B7-H3” protein, an increasingly popular target of late among cancer drugmakers.
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Roche scraps two Ionis-partnered Huntington’s drugs
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant told patient groups tominersen didn't delay disease progression in one trial, while a study of a second drug was scrapped because of a safety signal in animal testing.
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AstraZeneca, Ionis drug fails big heart disease study in major setback
Eplontersen’s failure in transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis cardiomyopathy caught Wall Street analysts by surprise and boosted the outlook of rival drugs from Alnylam and BridgeBio Pharma.
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ARPA-H puts $160M into bespoke drug therapies; Biohaven switches up scientific leadership
The ARPA-H program could provide researchers with a roadmap to develop personalized gene editing drugs. Elsewhere, a Botox rival succeeded against migraines and two deals were struck.
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Trump administrationHHS plan to speed drug research won’t remove ‘self-inflicted’ delays
U.S. clinical trials continue to lose ground to China, but is Operation Trialblazer enough to help America catch up?
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Deep Dive // Emerging biotechBiotech startups are built on venture capital. Track funding rounds here.
Between January and June, about two-thirds of the venture rounds involving the firms BioPharma Dive tracks supported startups with a drug in human testing — indicative of a widening funding gap among privately held biotechs.
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China competitionAstraZeneca, GSK intensify China ties with Sino Biopharm deals
The U.K. drugmakers added to a series of recent tie-ups with Chinese counterparts amid broader scrutiny of such transactions in the U.S.
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GSK ends brain drug alliance with Alector
Clinical setbacks derailed what was once a potentially $2.2 billion deal that marked GSK's return to neuroscience.
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Prime wins gene editing dispute; Saol claims latest post-Makary FDA reversal
An arbitration panel ruled Prime didn’t breach a deal with Beam by developing a rare disease treatment. Elsewhere, European regulators are using a pancreatic cancer drug to test a new framework for reviews.
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Vera Therapeutics wins FDA nod for closely watched kidney disease drug
The clearance marks another step forward in treatment for IgA nephropathy and sets up a commercial battle with Otsuka, which brought a similar medication to market last year.
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Vertex to acquire Crinetics in $10B foray into endocrine disease drugs
Vertex claimed the two drugs in the deal could eventually bring in more than $5 billion annually. Still, the high price it paid stirred debate among analysts and investors.
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Obesity drugsKailera says obesity pill succeeds in late-stage trial in China
The drug spurred about 10% weight loss over 10 months, though that finding came alongside high rates of gastrointestinal side effects that “alarmed” one analyst.
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Emerging biotechCancer, immune drugmakers dominate VC funding so far in 2026
Drug developers focusing on either disease area made up more than 40% of the number of biotech companies and amount raised so far in 2026, per BioPharma Dive data.
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Novartis to acquire ADC developer in a deal worth up to $1.5B
The deal hands over two ADCs with a different mechanism of action targeting cell growth, and marks Novartis' entry into ADC development.
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Deep DiveBiotech M&A is accelerating. Track the deals that are happening here.
Including Vertex’s buyout of Crinetics, four biotech M&A deals this year have involved at least $10 billion in guaranteed proceeds, already matching 2025’s total.
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Oberland pours up to $400M into MeiraGTx eye gene therapies
The funding deal is a vote of confidence in the sales potential of multiple prospects in late-stage development — one of which MeiraGTx recently reacquired from J&J.
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Gene editingGene editing developer Scribe plots an IPO
The California drugmaker, which has collaborations in place with Biogen, Sanofi and Eli Lilly, could be the 14th biotech to go public in 2026.
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Beyond Boston: Unlikely cities stake biotech claims
As Greater Boston’s biotech industry sheds jobs, three unlikely regions are showing promise as up-and-coming hubs.
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A PureTech startup banks $180M for a new IPF drug
Celea, backed by investors such as RA Capital and Leaps by Bayer, is making what it says is an improved version of Roche's Esbriet.
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Roche KRAS drug succeeds in head-to-head lung cancer study
The Phase 3 trial compared Roche’s divarasib with treatments sold by Amgen and Bristol Myers in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
