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Cancer immunotherapy financing and trial-readout momentum

October 19, 2026

Nouscom secured an oversubscribed $135 million Series D to accelerate NOUS-209, its off-the-shelf neoantigen-based immunotherapy program in Lynch syndrome cancer interception. The FDA granted Fast...

Inflammatory bowel disease: Gilead’s Phase 2 emvistegrast shows remission signal

October 19, 2026

Gilead Sciences reported Phase 2 results showing its oral inflammatory bowel disease candidate emvistegrast (2 00 mg daily) eliminated symptoms for patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative...

Regulatory: new Fast Track expansion for Marengo’s invikafusp alfa

October 19, 2026

Marengo Therapeutics said the FDA expanded fast track designation for invikafusp alfa (STAR0602) across pan-tumor TMB-H solid tumors that progressed after prior therapy, including checkpoint...

Oncology and biomarkers: early response signals emerge in HCC

October 19, 2026

New findings highlighted a pair of blood signals that can diverge early and refine liver cancer therapy response assessment in hepatocellular carcinoma. The premise is that the first treatment...

CAR-T safety: predictable hematologic toxicity risk scoring

October 19, 2026

A retrospective cohort study reported that the CAR-HEMATOTOX score predicts severe neutropenia and thrombocytopenia after CAR-T cell therapy, using data from 96 patients. The analysis described...

Company legal settlement impacting pulmonary arterial hypertension product label

October 19, 2026

Liquidia shares rebounded after the company settled a long-running legal dispute with United Therapeutics, ending six lawsuits spanning patent infringement, trade secret, and antitrust claims....

Regenerative medicine: early stem cell transplants improve survival in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome

October 19, 2026

A large international study found that performing stem cell transplants soon after high-risk bone marrow features emerge sharply improves survival for youth with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome. The...

Rare infectious disease and diagnostics: rapid TB resistance prediction with audit controls

October 19, 2026

Researchers reported a dual-pathway deep learning system that predicts tuberculosis drug resistance with over 95% accuracy while auditing sequencing quality and recovering both canonical and novel...

Clinical trial design and CMC planning: guidance on when to engage CDMOs

October 19, 2026

A new industry analysis focused on CDMO engagement timing argued that companies should involve contract development and manufacturing organizations early in development while keeping key CMC...

Health system and funding ecosystem: Saudi Arabia ramps biotech buildout

October 19, 2026

Saudi Arabia’s national biotechnology strategy has moved from a policy target toward operational partnerships, according to reporting on agreements announced at the Riyadh Global Medical...

FDA fast-track immuno-oncology expand

October 19, 2026

Marengo Therapeutics’ bispecific immuno-oncology agent invikafusp alfa (STAR0602) won an expanded FDA fast track designation across TMB-H solid tumors after prior therapy, including patients...

Liquidia-Udly United settlement reshapes PH-ILD label

October 19, 2026

Liquidia’s patent settlement with United Therapeutics resolved six lawsuits tied to treprostinil inhalation, with Liquidia agreeing to pay $380.7 million and to remove pulmonary hypertension...

Company financing for rare endocrine therapy

October 19, 2026

OMass secured $310 million to advance a drug program for congenital adrenal hyperplasia, targeting an option intended to compete in a market dominated by Neurocrine’s current FDA-approved therapy....

AI-and-CT biomarkers move toward noninvasive oncology decisions

October 19, 2026

A sequence of imaging AI studies reported new approaches to predict tumor features without invasive sampling, including a model that reads routine CT urography to predict bladder cancer HER2...

Single-cell insights into AML relapse after transplant

October 19, 2026

Single-cell sequencing work mapped distinct T-cell exhaustion programs that emerge in acute myeloid leukemia before and after transplant, linking relapse biology to different transcriptional...

CAR-T toxicities: gut persistence drives severe intestinal inflammation

October 19, 2026

A Mount Sinai study reported that BCMA-directed CAR-T cells can linger in the gut and correlate with severe intestinal inflammation in a subset of patients. The finding ties therapy persistence in...

Clinical trial: sparing chemotherapy in early breast cancer

October 19, 2026

The phase 3 RxFINE-Low trial will test whether some early-stage breast cancer patients can safely omit chemotherapy when they have low genomic risk but high anatomic risk. Enrolled patients will...

Microfluidic protein engineering scale-up

October 19, 2026

Caravel Bio advanced a microfluidic platform for protein engineering that couples cell-free synthesis in microdroplets with a bacterial spore-based display concept. The approach targets industrial...

Clinical delivery systems: Solusome improves oral bioavailability

October 19, 2026

Researchers developed ebastine-loaded Solusome nanovesicle oral lyophilisates designed to disintegrate quickly in the mouth and boost systemic exposure. In rats, the formulation increased ebastine...

Diagnostics and epidemiology: low-cost CRISPR test for Babesia

October 19, 2026

Thailand-based researchers reported that a cheap Tris–EDTA buffer DNA extraction method can match commercial extraction kits when paired with RPA and CRISPR–Cas12a for rapid detection of Babesia...