Business Strategies

“It is shifting so quickly. It's shifting underneath our feet,” says NielsenIQ wellness VP Sherry Frey. Even comparing the past year to the preceding eight, “it's just accelerating quicker and quicker, and one of the biggest areas is online.”

There were six biopharma initial public offerings on Western stock exchanges, including five in the US, during the first quarter, but plunging stock values could halt further IPOs.

Bharat Biotech is the latest entrant in India’s cell and gene therapy space, joining majors like Intas Pharma, Sun Pharma, Cipla and Dr. Reddy’s. An indigenously developed CAR-T cell therapy launched last year, what is driving growing interest and success in cell and gene therapies?

Manufacturers, marketers and other businesses in the industry may be thinking, “Well, this is different” because the president ordered tariffs on a list of countries rather than on his sole first-term target of China.

Industry lobbing for pharmaceuticals to be exempt from President Trump’s sweeping US tariffs appears to have paid off.

Public Company Edition: Stock valuations are falling due to political, economic and regulatory uncertainty, resulting in fewer large public offerings, more alternative financings and cost cuts. Carisma, Tenaya, BioAtla, Arbutus, Nkarta, Alector and Adaptimmune announced layoffs.

The Visby Medical Women’s Sexual Health Test is the first over-the-counter test cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration to detect chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis. It delivers results in about 30 minutes.

CEO Kris Elverum told Scrip about the start-up’s platform for editing RNA to correct genetic variants that cause harm and to reproduce healthy variants as a means of treating disease.

Leann Sims joins AbundaBox as COO; Oura Ring firm appoints CMO.

Ibis Reproductive Health adds Desiree Williams to lead MORE Study; Radicle Science adds Rob Sinnott as senior strategic advisor; Leann Sims joins AbundaBox as COO; former Cannabis Beverage Association president moves to Vertosa; Vegamour expands executive staff with CMO; and Oura Ring firm appoints CMO.