Creating Better Medicines through Better Conjugation

Acuitas CEO Dr Thomas Madden and NanoVation co-founder and president Dr Dominik Witzigmann discuss how LNP engineering is expanding genetic medicine applications to traditionally undruggable targets.

In the OCTANE real-world analysis presented at EASD 2026, adults who switched from injectable semaglutide or tirzepatide to once-daily oral semaglutide lost an average of 4.1% of body weight after 3 months.

LumaLex Law's Dustin Robinson explains why retatrutide compounding remains illegal regardless of the Seventh Circuit's pending classification ruling.

Artiva Biotherapeutics will present data on AlloNK, an allogeneic, non-genetically modified NK cell therapy given with rituximab, in refractory rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren disease and systemic sclerosis at ACR Convergence 2026, ahead of a planned phase 3 trial in rheumatoid arthritis.

Novartis has secured an exclusive worldwide license to ABO2203, Abogen's investigational mRNA-encoded CD19xCD3 T-cell engager designed to produce the bispecific inside the body to reset B cells in autoimmune disease. The agreement also includes options on other programs built on Abogen's RNA platform.

The 15-month project could let living cell therapies ship and store at room temperature, cutting cold-chain costs that limit patient access.

A planned phase 3 trial will test the TROP2 ADC and PD-1/VEGF bispecific together in 1st-line triple-negative breast cancer.

Former FDA oncology reviewer Paz Vellanki, MD, PhD, of Precision for Medicine, discusses how CDER's ARC program supports novel end points such as ctDNA for rare diseases and why sponsors should engage FDA early.