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FDA expands companion diagnostics for targeted lung therapy

May 21, 2026

The FDA approved an expanded companion diagnostic label for Foundation Medicine’s FoundationOne CDx to support EMD Serono’s Tepmetko (tepotinib) in metastatic NSCLC with MET exon 14 skipping...

Cancer diagnostics scale up with Guardant360 Liquid CDx approval

May 21, 2026

The FDA approved Guardant Health’s upgraded Guardant360 Liquid CDx, expanding blood-based tumor profiling to a much larger genomic footprint for cancer treatment decision-making. Guardant said...

Regulatory and policy implications for laboratory-developed testing (LDTs)

May 21, 2026

US lawmakers introduced a bill to update CLIA oversight for laboratory-developed tests, aiming to restore more structured governance following a 2025 court decision that positioned LDTs as...

AI integration and enterprise drug discovery acceleration

May 21, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb expanded its enterprise AI strategy by partnering with Anthropic to deploy Claude across global operations, aiming to move beyond chat-only use cases. The collaboration will...

CAR T innovation and early-stage pipeline movement

May 21, 2026

CAR T manufacturing and development continued to progress through early regulatory and deal announcements spanning autoimmune targeting and next-generation bivalent antigen designs. Hangzhou...

Obesity and cardiometabolic drug strategy beyond weight loss

May 21, 2026

Beyond primary weight-loss efficacy, companies are increasingly using cardiometabolic risk-factor readouts and broader endpoint coverage to support obesity drug value propositions. Coverage of...

Dealmaking and pipeline funding in biotech

May 21, 2026

Biotech financing and M&A activity continued to accelerate through high-value deals and public-market bids aimed at extending clinical programs. Parabilis Medicines filed for an IPO while...

Biotech R&D platform scaling: diagnostics, data, and manufacturing capabilities

May 21, 2026

Across development platforms and enabling technologies, new investments and product roadmaps are focusing on scaling data capture, manufacturing flexibility, and agentic support for drug...

Obesity drug efficacy milestone for retatrutide

May 21, 2026

Eli Lilly’s next-generation triple-acting obesity drug retatrutide cleared another major milestone in Phase 3, with “TRIUMPH-1” data showing sustained weight loss over 80 weeks. At the highest 12...

Obesity pipeline competitiveness—new retatrutide readout context

May 21, 2026

A second report on retatrutide reframed the Phase 3 “TRIUMPH-1” dataset as a competitiveness test against both Lilly’s existing GLP-1/GIP product Zepbound and the broader market leaders. The new...

Immunology—FcRn inhibitor momentum in rheumatoid arthritis

May 21, 2026

Immunovant’s shares jumped after early, open-label “compelling” Phase 2b data for IMVT-1402 in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis. The program enrolled patients who had already failed at...

Oncology drug expansion—BioMarin seeks Voxzogo approval for short stature

May 21, 2026

BioMarin moved to expand Voxzogo after new clinical results supporting use in children with hypochondroplasia, a skeletal disorder related to achondroplasia. In a Phase 3 trial, participants...

Genomic diagnostics—FDA nod for expanded Guardant360 Liquid CDx

May 21, 2026

The FDA approved Guardant Health’s upgraded Guardant360 Liquid CDx, expanding the test’s genomic and epigenomic coverage for comprehensive tumor profiling from a single blood draw. The new assay...

AI in drug development—BMS deploys Claude enterprise-wide

May 21, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb partnered with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI across global operations, aiming to accelerate drug discovery and development through enterprise-wide integration. The platform is...

Clinical platform and diagnostics—Personalis expands Medicare coverage for NeXT Personal

May 21, 2026

CMS expanded Medicare coverage for Personalis’ NeXT Personal minimal residual disease test to include monitoring response to neoadjuvant therapies in stage II to III triple-negative or...

Corporate deal—Liminatus pays for InnocsAI CAR-T pipeline

May 21, 2026

Liminatus Pharma agreed to acquire InnocsAI in a share-based deal valued at about $320 million, positioning the purchase around InnocsAI’s autologous CD19xCD22 bivalent CAR-T platform IBC101. The...

M&A and platforms—Eli Lilly buys Engage Biologics for non-viral DNA delivery

May 21, 2026

Eli Lilly agreed to acquire Engage Biologics for $202 million, adding preclinical non-viral DNA delivery technology to its genetic medicines pipeline. The deal centers on Engage’s Tethosome...

Clinical development—Qihan Biotech gets FDA IND clearance for universal allogeneic CAR-T

May 21, 2026

Hangzhou Qihan Biotech received IND clearance from the FDA for QT-019C, a universal allogeneic CAR-T therapy targeting autoimmune diseases. The off-the-shelf program is engineered from healthy...

CDx scale-up

May 21, 2026

Guardant Health won FDA approval for an upgraded Guardant360 Liquid CDx, positioning the test to expand comprehensive tumor profiling beyond the company’s prior assay footprint. Guardant said the...

CAR-T M&A and early clinical momentum

May 21, 2026

Liminatus Pharma agreed to pay shares worth $320 million to acquire InnocsAI, adding an early CAR-T pipeline including IBC101, an autologous CD19xCD22 bivalent program targeting relapsed or...