Kaken Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s license agreement with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for signal transducer and activator of ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) on multiple fronts. They continued to expand into new indications, and provide their developers with both rich remuneration and scientific acclamation. There are now ...

Kaken will take the drug through phase I trials, after which J&J takes over. Under the terms, Kaken banks an up-front payment of $30 million and could collect more than $1.2 billion if development and ...

When every hour’s delay in treatment increases the risk of death 8%, dialing down time to diagnosis takes on acute urgency for clinicians and regulators. When the disease being treated kills 20% of ...

Certa Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has acquired Occurx Pty Ltd. in a move to strengthen its pipeline to target multiple fibrotic diseases as both companies share a focus on targeting GPR68, a defined G ...

Device makers doing business in the U.S. have had a much more stable regulatory regime than has been true for companies in other jurisdictions, but that will shift somewhat in 2025. Brynn Stanley of ...

AI pulled in major financings and approvals for Asia med-techs in 2024 as Asia Pacific countries played to individual strengths to maximize AI’s applications in the health care sector. While breakaway ...

BioWorld's offices were closed in observance of Christmas. No issues were published Wednesday, Dec. 25 or Thursday, Dec. 26.

Engineered probiotics, mainly bacterial probiotics, are an emerging platform for in situ delivery of therapeutics, including anticancer therapies, to the gut. Writing in Cell Chemical Biology, ...

The first round of the U.S.’ Medicare negotiations accounted for a lot of digital ink and headlines in 2024. Next year is sure to bring more of the same as Medicare is to announce up to 15 Part D ...

SK Bioscience Co. Ltd. won €50 million (₩75.5 billion, US$52.03 million) up front from Sanofi SA to expand an earlier ...

First, the good news about pandemics – and in 2024, there was big “good news.” Science Magazine named lenacapavir (Gilead Sciences Inc.) as the Breakthrough of the Year. In two separate trials, ...