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As we enter 2025, In Vivo convened a group of biotech executives for a wide-ranging conversation about dealmaking this year and the challenges and opportunities for companies in the cardiometabolic, longevity, radiopharmaceuticals and cancer spaces. Essential listening before JPM.
As the pharmaceutical sector evolves, the landscape of sales-driving indications is set for transformation by 2030. This article explores the therapeutic areas poised for substantial growth and examines how leading companies are strategically positioning themselves to capitalize on these emerging opportunities.
The ability of artificial intelligence tools to distinguish correlation from causation could prove to be a boon to the industry.
In 2023, China emerged as the second largest exporter in the global biopharmaceutical pipeline. While innovation, international expansion, and commercialization remain pivotal, the industry's growth has increasingly relied on industrial efforts due to less active capital markets.
Six $1bn+ alliances were penned in November, and three exceeded $2bn.
Data provided by Biomedtracker show that data-driven methodologies within R&D are propelling life sciences to unprecedented advancements. It is making drug development faster, more efficient and more personalized.
Circular RNA has several advantages, but the field is young. Scandinavian startup Circio Holdings believes its version of the technology will prove the most robust.
While medtechs still find the investment environment difficult, good companies will continue to get funded. So says Taylor Wessing partner Ross McNaughton, adding that UK life sciences innovators should in the longer-term benefit from more funds going into VC and PE under The Mansion House Compact.
AI and machine learning can help companies push failures further up to avoid costly late-stage disappointments.
Attrition among biotechs and VCs holding onto their reserve capital for existing investments may have reduced the capital available for new life sciences funding, but UK-based LifeArc Ventures believes its recent activity is indicative of a general upswing.
The financial macroenvironment may be looking more favorable for 2025 but will pharma growth be muted by elements beyond its control? In Vivo discusses the headwinds and drivers for pharma in the coming 12 months.
Pressure to exploit connected care functionality is accelerating the shift in care delivery away from the inpatient setting. Medtechs are reshaping to maximize faster-growth opportunities.
Nine biopharma companies made 12 or more deals, with Novartis inking 21 deals and leading M&A activity. Roche, meanwhile, spent little up front but maintained a hectic pace with 12 alliances.
As Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk reap the blockbuster rewards of their rival obesity therapies the companies are also bulking up their organizations to make the most of the phenomenal rise of the GLP-1 class.
Despite experiencing significant drops in pharmaceutical revenues in 2023, Pfizer and AbbVie maintained their top positions, ranking first and second respectively, in the latest Scrip 100.
Pfizer continued its reign as the Scrip 100 leader for a third year, while Lilly and Novo climbed higher.
As the US biosimilars market approaches the end of its first decade, it has seen another busy year, with Amgen’s surprise launch of a rival to Eylea shaking up expectations as other first-time approvals rolled in throughout 2024. Meanwhile, competition to Stelara is waiting in the wings from the start of 2025.
Venture capital funding is up, and initial and follow-on public offerings are growing, but the building wave of investment in biopharma has not reached all companies.
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro have shaken up pharma, crossing firmly over into the mainstream while netting fortunate suppliers billions of dollars in the process. As patent expiry approaches for first- and second-generation products, generics manufacturers are gearing up to take a share of the spoils.