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FDA offers bonus pay: reviewers to be rewarded for faster drug reviews
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced a pilot program that will pay quarterly bonuses to drug reviewers who complete reviews ahead of schedule, according to slides and a staff presentation...
Atrium spins out with $270M: RNA therapies target rare cardiac disorders
Atrium Therapeutics launched with a $270 million financing to advance two RNA therapy candidates for rare inherited cardiac conditions, the company said. Atrium spun out of Avidity Biosciences...
Belzutifan+pembrolizumab cuts relapse risk: LITESPARK‑022 posts Phase 3 disease‑free survival gains
The Phase 3 LITESPARK‑022 trial reported that combining belzutifan, a HIF‑2α inhibitor, with pembrolizumab significantly improved disease‑free survival in high‑risk clear‑cell renal cell carcinoma...
Novartis tests Rhapsido in food allergy — Phase 2 signals
Novartis presented preliminary Phase 2 data evaluating Rhapsido, a drug recently approved for chronic spontaneous urticaria, in food allergy. The company reported that all three investigational...
Viral proteins reveal bacterial 'kill switch' — MurJ locked and defeated
Researchers discovered that unrelated bacteriophages disable the essential bacterial cell‑wall protein MurJ by locking it into a single conformation, halting peptidoglycan assembly and causing...
X‑ray activated platinum complex boosts radiotherapy and immunotherapy response
Researchers reported a platinum complex that is activated by X‑rays to enhance radiotherapy efficacy and amplify anti‑tumor immune responses in preclinical models. The compound operates via a...
Microfluidic chips predict implantation: chemiluminescent metabolic assay for IVF
Researchers unveiled a chemiluminescent microfluidic chip with dielectric wetting valves that non‑invasively measures embryo metabolites to predict implantation potential. The device integrates...
Wearable ultrasound microneedle patch delivers on‑demand gout therapy
A newly reported wearable device combines ultrasound actuation with microneedle drug delivery to provide both immediate and sustained therapy for gouty arthritis. Published in npj Flexible...
Atrium spins out with $270M to back RNA cardiac programs
Atrium Therapeutics launched with $270 million in initial financing to develop RNA therapies for rare inherited cardiac conditions. The company spun out from Avidity Biosciences after Avidity’s...
FDA pilots bonuses to speed drug reviews — Makary leads change
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced a pilot program to pay bonuses to drug reviewers who complete reviews ahead of schedule, with the first quarterly payments expected in August. The plan ties...
Belzutifan plus pembrolizumab extends disease-free survival in kidney cancer
The phase 3 LITESPARK-022 trial reported that combining belzutifan, a HIF-2α inhibitor, with pembrolizumab significantly improved disease-free survival in high-risk clear cell renal cell carcinoma...
Novartis’ Rhapsido shows Phase 2 signal in food allergy
Novartis reported Phase 2 data indicating its recently approved hives drug, Rhapsido, produced higher response rates across three doses in a food allergy study. Company investigators presented...
Merck seeks label expansion for Welireg in kidney cancer combinations
Merck has filed to expand Welireg’s label to include two combination regimens in kidney cancer pairing the HIF-2α inhibitor with Keytruda and with Lenvima, despite not yet having overall survival...
Researchers uncover viral 'kill switch' targeting critical bacterial protein
Scientists discovered that diverse bacteriophages produce proteins that disable MurJ, an essential bacterial lipid II flippase, locking it in a single conformation and halting cell-wall synthesis....
X-ray–activated platinum complex enhances radiotherapy immune effects
Researchers reported a novel platinum complex that is activated by X‑rays to boost cancer radiotherapy efficacy through mechanisms distinct from conventional radiosensitizers. Preclinical work...
IRB Barcelona launches Spain’s first end-to-end spatial omics platform
IRB Barcelona consolidated core facilities to unveil Spain’s first end-to-end spatial omics workflow, offering integrated sample processing, spatial transcriptomics, imaging, and data analysis...
Foundation models reshape spatial multi-omic analysis
New work highlights how foundation-style multimodal models are transforming spatial multi-omic studies by integrating histopathology images with molecular maps to reveal cellular phenotypes in...
Microfluidic chemiluminescent chip predicts embryo implantation potential
Researchers developed chemiluminescent microfluidic chips with dielectric wetting valves that noninvasively analyze embryo metabolites to predict implantation potential during IVF. The device...
Belzutifan–pembrolizumab combo extends disease‑free survival in high‑risk kidney cancer
A phase 3 trial (LITESPARK‑022) reported that adding the HIF‑2α inhibitor belzutifan to pembrolizumab improved disease‑free survival in patients with clear‑cell renal cell carcinoma at high risk...
FDA offers bonus pay for faster drug reviews: pilot program unveiled
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced a pilot program to award bonus payments to drug reviewers who complete reviews ahead of schedule, marking an operational shift in how the agency...