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Obesity RNAi deal accelerates metabolic pipeline
Roche is making a deeper play in obesity by extending its China deal streak with a $1.2B pact for an ALK7 RNA interference program from Rona Therapeutics, targeting a genetically validated driver...
Enabling science: Sec61 targeting collaboration with Pfizer
Enodia Therapeutics and Pfizer struck a research collaboration and licensing agreement to discover and develop small-molecule Sec61 inhibitors. Enodia will run discovery, optimization, and...
Immunotherapy: engineered CAR T advances with faster manufacturing
Ohio State investigators reported early clinical signals from a phase I study using fresh, rapidly manufactured CAR T cells engineered to target three B-cell proteins and boosted with OX40. In...
FDA clearance for cuffless continuous blood pressure wearable
Happy Health received FDA clearance for its cuffless wearable ring that continuously measures blood pressure without a cuff or external calibration. The clearance supports commercialization of a...
Obesity drug trial readout: Verdiva’s Phase 2 terminated
Verdiva Bio terminated one of its Phase 2 trials of a GLP-1 pill candidate, citing “market evolution,” according to the report. The decision highlights the ongoing volatility in obesity...
Biologics manufacturing: UCB commits $2B US campus
UCB dedicated its planned Rowen, Georgia biologics manufacturing campus, setting out a $2 billion investment. The site is described as UCB’s first U.S. manufacturing location and is intended to...
Synthetic biology and rare disease gene editing: prime editing in patient stem cells
Researchers at Aarhus University demonstrated a prime-editing approach that corrects genetic defects in a patient’s own blood stem cells in a study focused on GATA2 deficiency. The report says the...
Antimicrobial resistance: CDC says Candida auris cases double
U.S. national surveillance data show clinical cases of Candida auris climbed from 2,882 in 2022 to 6,197 in 2024—more than doubling in two years—according to a CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...
Cancer immunotherapy: dual IL-17 blocker bimekizumab durability
A two-year Japanese real-world study reports sustained high clearance rates across genital, scalp, and nail psoriasis for bimekizumab, a dual IL-17A/IL-17F inhibitor. The report describes...
Regulatory and policy: NIH grant score concealment proposal sparks backlash
The NIH is weighing changes to how grant review impact scores are disclosed to applicants, with a proposal to conceal numerical scores and replace them with broad tier buckets such as top 25%,...
Obesity RNAi push expands at Roche
Roche moved further into obesity by licensing an RNA interference program aimed at ALK7 from Rona Therapeutics, adding to a run of late-stage metabolic deals. The collaboration centers on...
CAR T innovation accelerates manufacturing cycle
Ohio State investigators reported early results for a newly engineered CAR T-cell approach targeting three B-cell proteins and incorporating OX40 co-stimulation. In a phase I setting for relapsed...
Enodia and Pfizer team up on Sec61 small-molecule inhibitors
Enodia Therapeutics entered a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Pfizer to discover and develop small-molecule Sec61 inhibitors. Enodia will run discovery and optimization across...
FDA clears cuffless wearable blood pressure ring
Happy Health received FDA clearance for its cuffless wearable blood pressure ring designed to continuously measure blood pressure without a cuff or external calibration. The clearance supports the...
Hospital fungal threat escalates: Candida auris doubles
CDC surveillance data show clinical Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, with the fungus now classified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat. The report links the...
Phase I immune activation: IMM60 shows safety in advanced cancers
A first-in-human phase I study reported that IMM60—a liposomal iNKT cell agonist—was well tolerated alone or with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer....
Machine learning CAR T for real-world monitoring
Vanderbilt researchers built a reusable electronic health record pipeline that converts minute-by-minute ICU arterial blood pressure streams into research-ready longitudinal profiles. The approach...
SFTS patient risk stratification moves to early biomarkers
A study analyzing 775 SFTS patients found that a six-biomarker panel and early biomarker trajectories can flag patients at high risk of fatal cardiogenic shock within the first week of...
PRV liquidity deal: Ultragenyx sells rare pediatric voucher
Ultragenyx agreed to sell a Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) for $210 million, linked to the FDA approval of GENGLYCOS (pariglasgene brebacarvovec-opnr), a one-time gene...
NIH grant process faces pushback over hidden scores
A new NIH rule proposal drew open criticism after it suggested concealing impact scores from grant applicants. Under the plan, reviews would still include written critiques and criterion factor...