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BioAge prices $198M IPO, validating pivot to obesity drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The offering, which was upsized twice, will support development of a drug the company believes can boost the effects of popular weight loss medicines like Eli Lilly’s Zepbound.

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AltruBio lands up to $225M after shift to immune drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Since pivoting from oncology, the startup has raised close to $300 million and advanced an ulcerative colitis drug into mid-stage testing.

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FTC, in unusual move, leads Sanofi to terminate a drug research deal

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Just before clearing Pfizer’s buyout of Seagen, the regulator threatened to block Sanofi’s licensing deal with Maze Therapeutics, a challenge the biotech called ‘‘unprecedented.”

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Foundery, a new biotech venture firm, sets out to speed early immune drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Billing itself as both a scientific and investment partner, Foundery aims to provide research grants and drug development support to researchers developing new immunotherapies.

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Pharmas form joint venture to jumpstart Japanese drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A new initiative backed by Takeda, Astellas and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking aims to combat a decade-long decline in drug R&D productivity in Japan.

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Pfizer, looking for a jumpstart, leans into cancer drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Reeling from a difficult year financially, the pharma unveiled a new oncology division it says will produce eight billion-dollar medicines by 2030.

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FogPharma pulls in $145M to support cancer drug research

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The cash will be used to advance development of FOG-001, the company’s lead drug that’s now being tested in an early-stage trial for solid tumors.