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Stand Up To Cancer has awarded its Nina Nicolai Pancreatic Cancer Innovation in Collaboration Award to a research team developing a combination approach that pairs an engineered mRNA vaccine with KRAS G12D-directed TCR-T cell therapy, aiming to sustain antigen production and improve T-cell responses against pancreatic cancer.

Early Parkinson patients could gain a first disease-modifying option as ACI-7104 clears a major FDA hurdle after strong interim results.

Ascletis has initiated two Phase I studies for its obesity pipeline: ASC36, a once-monthly amylin receptor peptide agonist, and ASC36_35FDC, a once-monthly fixed-dose co-formulation of ASC36 with its GLP-1R/GIPR dual agonist ASC35, following recent FDA IND clearances for both candidates.

Bristol Myers Squibb has selected Houston's Generation Park for a new $2.3 billion multi-modal manufacturing campus capable of producing small molecules, biologics, and antibody-drug conjugates, adding to a growing wave of large-scale US pharmaceutical manufacturing investment.

Akeso is pairing a next-gen bispecific ADC with its PD-1/VEGF antibody, ivonescimab, in a first-line push against hard-to-treat breast cancer.

AWS's AI and cloud tools aim to compress Novo Nordisk's path from drug target to first human dose for chronic disease patients.

Moderna's mFLUSIVA approval offers a regulatory case study for mRNA vaccine sponsors, covering comparator selection lessons from the FDA's reversed refusal-to-file, competitive implications for Pfizer and Sanofi's mRNA flu programs, and what the accelerated approval pathway means for long-term regulatory risk.

BI-1808 plus pembrolizumab posted a 24% response rate in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, tripling pembrolizumab's historical rate alone.

Neurocrine Biosciences has dosed the first participants in a Phase 1 study of NBIP-'1968, an investigational GLP-1/GIP/glucagon receptor triple agonist for obesity, marking the company's entry into the increasingly competitive multi-agonist incretin therapeutics space.

Melanoma patients who failed anti-PD-1 therapy gain a new option after Replimune's oncolytic virus clears FDA on its third try.

The facility aims to scale global biologics supply, supporting patient access to advanced therapies as manufacturing capacity becomes a bottleneck in drug delivery.

Mediar Therapeutics has signed a collaboration and option agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical to co-develop novel antibody therapeutics targeting myofibroblast biology in fibro-inflammatory diseases, building on Mediar's existing three-program antifibrotic antibody pipeline.

Backed by an 84.3% drop in RSV hospitalizations, Enflonsia could extend protection to high-risk infants still vulnerable in their second season.

Nonhealing wounds precede 80% of diabetes-related amputations, and BIOxHEAL is now cleared to test whether it can change that in a controlled trial.

Alteogen has licensed its ALT-B4 subcutaneous platform to an undisclosed global pharmaceutical company in a deal worth up to $365 million.

Kyverna Therapeutics and ElevateBio have entered a commercial manufacturing and supply agreement for miv-cel, Kyverna's autologous CD19-targeting CAR T-cell therapy, securing scalable production ahead of a planned launch in stiff person syndrome.

Dash Bio has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Oak HC/FT to scale its automated, GLP-compliant bioanalysis platform, bringing total funding to $47.5 million as the company works to compress preclinical and clinical sample-testing timelines.

Under the deal, Pathos gains ex-China rights and will fund development of the bispecific ADC, already in phase 3 testing for triple-negative breast cancer.

Oblenio Bio has dosed the first patients in a phase 1a trial of tri-specific T-cell engager LBL-051 for refractory autoimmune disease.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals has reported a positive safety update for RP-A501 from the first 3 patients treated under a modified phase 2 protocol in Danon disease.

FDA has granted fast track designation to Aravax's PVX108, a peptide immunotherapy for peanut allergy, ahead of phase 2 data.

Precision analytics and flexible manufacturing are helping to advance safer, scalable bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and central nervous system monoclonal antibodies from development to patients.

Novo Nordisk's ziltivekimab failed to reduce cardiovascular events in the phase 3 ZEUS trial despite confirmed IL-6 target engagement.

The EC has approved AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s datopotamab deruxtecan ADC for 1st-line metastatic TNBC, which showed a 5.0-month overall survival benefit over chemotherapy.

Polpharma Biologics and Fresenius Kabi announced that the FDA and EMA have accepted for review PB016, a proposed biosimilar to Takeda's Entyvio (vedolizumab), with Fresenius Kabi holding exclusive global commercialization rights outside the Middle East and North Africa.