Through proprietary and commercial AI tools, VCs aim to accelerate landscape mapping, deal flow and diligence. Will outcomes change?
Finance
After 20 years of platform building and resets, Redemplo, cardiometabolic breadth and extrahepatic delivery could drive biotech’s next growth phase
Product Development
In the shadow of China, Korea biotech is building a brand around bold science and a broad technology base
Editor's Commentary
Parents are pressing for accelerated approvals of MPS treatments
Politics, Policy & Law
An analysis of dealmaking in 2024-25 shows Asia biotechs, ex-China, leaning into enabling technologies and first-in-class bets
Deals
Product Development
Age at onset and delivery route may shape where cyclodextrin therapies fit in NPC
AI’s clearest near-term gains, and its next frontier in drug development: The BioCentury Show
Emerging Company Profile
Via deal with China-based Alebund, the well-funded start-up is developing a therapy that could challenge phosphate binders in hyperphosphatemia
With three T cell engager platforms and a trispecific in the clinic, the Shanghai-based biotech raises $68.7M in seed funding
Data Byte
Oral GLP-1R agonist aleniglipron delivers up to 16.3% placebo-adjusted weight loss and will advance to Phase III
Discovery & Translation
Plus: engineered receptors to target low-CD70 solid tumors, Xaira’s virtual cell model, and infectious disease company innovations
Regulation
The newly approved pill from Protagonist and J&J narrows the efficacy gap with injectables
Politics, Policy & Law
With support from Republican committee chairs, the FDA commissioner has side-stepped Congress
After months-long lapse, critical early-stage funding program reauthorized
Deals
Deal for mutation-selective molecule comes more than a year after Lilly’s purchase of Scorpion for breast cancer asset in same class
Finance
Plus: Crossbow lines up its first shot in the clinic, and new rounds for Mestag, Unnatural Products, R1 and Excalipoint
Plus: The week’s PIPEs, follow-ons, and IPOs
Biopharma Stock Performers
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Product Development
Management Tracks
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