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BioPharm Brief: Dermatology, Neurology, and Oncology Updates

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This week's BioPharm Brief highlights City Therapeutics' efforts to advance its RNAi pipeline with a new financing round, positive Phase 3 data for survodutide in obesity and MASLD, and Lilly's oral GLP-1 Foundayo outperforming oral semaglutide in a landmark head-to-head type 2 diabetes trial.

The Ron Lanton Report

In this episode, Ron Lanton draws on insights from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference to explain how healthcare investment is shifting from backing novel ideas to funding organizations that can scale, survive regulatory and reimbursement pressure, and embed technology into the operational infrastructure of care delivery.

BioPharm Brief: RNAi, Obesity, and Diabetes Advances

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This week's BioPharm Brief highlights City Therapeutics' efforts to advance its RNAi pipeline with a new financing round, positive Phase 3 data for survodutide in obesity and MASLD, and Lilly's oral GLP-1 Foundayo outperforming oral semaglutide in a landmark head-to-head type 2 diabetes trial.

The BioPharm Brief: Myeloma, Hemophilia, and KRAS

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Sanofi secured European approval for a subcutaneous formulation of Sarclisa in multiple myeloma, Pfizer expanded HYMPAVZI's FDA-approved use in hemophilia, and Johnson & Johnson agreed to acquire Firefly Bio to strengthen its KRAS-focused oncology pipeline.

In this episode of The BioPharm Brief, we cover the FDA approval of Lupin's interchangeable ranibizumab biosimilar Ranluspec, a new iPSC cell therapy manufacturing partnership between Made Scientific and Pluristyx, and emerging research on TIGIT as a potential immunotherapy target in pancreatic cancer.

Today’s BioPharm Brief covers major developments in oncology, rare disease therapeutics, and ADC manufacturing, including positive Phase 3 data for Kelun-Biotech’s sac-TMT in triple-negative breast cancer, promising hypochondroplasia results for vosoritide, and new perspectives on risk-based cleaning validation for highly potent drug manufacturing.

This edition of The BioPharm Brief highlights major advances in obesity, oncology, and regenerative medicine, including Merck’s Phase 3 ADC study in metastatic colorectal cancer, Eli Lilly’s promising retatrutide obesity trial results, and manufacturing progress supporting Klotho cell therapy development. Together, these updates reflect the biopharma industry’s accelerating focus on targeted therapies, next-generation weight loss drugs, and scalable cell therapy innovation.