Medtech takes on pain
Attempts to treat pain with non-opioid drugs have ended in repeated failures – but device makers have met with greater success.
Drug makers leave the pain behind
Developing non-opioid analgesics remains one of the hardest tasks in biopharma.
Can Kalvista make HAE after Pharvaris’s misstep?
A clinical hold for Pharvaris raises questions about the group’s approach, and could leave the door open for its acute rival.
Cytokine players keep the faith
The demise of Nektar’s bempegaldesleukin has not stemmed the tidal wave of companies developing IL-2 and IL-15 therapies.
The Sting is dead; long live the Sting
Yesterday’s deal between GSK and Mersana threw the spotlight back on a forgotten oncology mechanism.
Private equity gets serious about drug development
Venture capital has the brains, private equity has the books – can they make lots of money?
The trigger for a Seagen buyout
Seagen is vulnerable to takeover, but whether a deal happens – and at what price – depends on at least one catalyst.
The lowdown on high blood pressure
After Idorsia’s tease in resistant hypertension, data will soon emerge on other advanced assets, including long-acting RNA-based approaches.
The next generation of diabetes technology
New devices are coming, but the real advances will involve combinations.
