Novo’s attempted rebrand got off to a shaky start this week with the news that the pharma had walked away from a $285 million biobucks pact to develop a monthly weight loss drug after less than two years. The multi-pronged partnership , which was signed in November 2024, centered on using Ascendis’ TransCon platform to develop candidates in metabolic diseases like obesity and diabetes. The lead program was meant to be a once-monthly GLP-1 receptor agonist that was initially focused on both of t

Company's Cognitive Network Restoration Therapy (CNRT) technology aims to make meaningful cognitive recovery possible years after initial injury Targeting a brain hub involved in executive function, CNRT activates underperforming networks to reverse deficits and restore independence Groundbreaking therapeutic approach has the potential to transform chronic cognitive impairment care from rehabilitation to restoration Sept. 15, 2026 -- ReEmerge, Inc. (ReEmerge), a private MedTech company innovati

Enabled by Altruist's integrated CMC development platform, GMP manufacturing and regulatory service capabilities, LP-003 has successfully advanced from concept to potential commercialization. LP-003 is the first innovative drug independently developed by LongBio Pharma to advance to BLA submission. Sept. 14, 2026 -- Altruist Biologics, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and wholly owned subsidiary of Innovent Biologics (1801.HK), congratulates its strategic

Shennon Biotechnologies has welcomed a new chief executive and refreshed its cash reserves, both of which will help shepherd the company's transition from early R&D to clinical development. The biotech on Monday raised $12 million and appointed Cyril Konto as CEO, succeeding founder Li Sun, who will transition to president and chief technology officer. Konto previously served as the executive director for early immuno-oncology clinical development at Pfizer, and prior to that, was the director

PTK7 Expression Remained Stable Following Standard-of-Care Therapies, Supporting Its Relevance as a Target in Second- or Later-Line EGFR NSCLC Findings Reinforce the Scientific Rationale for HWK-007, Whitehawk's Next-Generation PTK7-Directed ADC Currently in Phase 1 Developmen Sept. 13, 2026 -- Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: WHWK), a clinical-stage oncology therapeutics company applying advanced technologies to established tumor biology to efficiently develop improved antibody drug conju

The fifteen-month dataset represents the final analysis from the Phase 1/2 study At the Month 15 primary timepoint, SKY-0515-treated patients showed a +1.59-point difference in Composite Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (cUHDRS) change from baseline versus overlap-weighted external natural history control Differences favoring SKY-0515 were statistically significant across all four cUHDRS components – Total Functional Capacity, Total Motor Score, Symbol Digit Modalities Test and Stroop W

Vera Therapeutics is on course to gain full approval of Trutakna (atacicept-vymj) after announcing Tuesday that the drug met all prespecified endpoints at the final efficacy analysis of the Phase III ORIGIN 3 trial in adults with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) at risk for disease progression. The news sent company shares up nearly 15% in premarket trading. Trutakna, designed to simultaneously block BAFF and APRIL, gained accelerated FDA approval in July to reduce proteinuria in adults with prim

Ivonescimab Reduced the Risk of Death by 27% Compared to Pembrolizumab HARMONi-2 Demonstrated an Improvement in Median Overall Survival of 8.2 Months PD-L1 High Expression Subgroup: Hazard Ratio = 0.58 Summit is Conducting Global Phase III HARMONi-7 Study in Patients with PD-L1 High-Expressing NSCLC Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) today noted that its partner Akeso Inc. announced that updated data, including overall survival (OS), from the randomized, double-blind Phase III HARMONi-2 tr

Sept. 14, 2026 -- Sapience Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing first-in-class peptide therapeutics targeting the underlying oncogenic and immune mechanisms driving cancer and pre-cancerous disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ST316 (IND 184073) for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a rare inherited disorder associated w

Roche’s collaborator MediLink announces phase III data for Tam-Peli showing significantly improved overall survival in Chinese patient population with relapsed small-cell lung cancer Tambotatug pelitecan (Tam-Peli) demonstrated statistically significant efficacy over topotecan in a phase III study conducted in China, reducing the risk of death by 54% and disease progression by 71%, while achieving an objective response rate of 59.1% vs 9.7%1 The novel B7-H3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate with