
The sun sets on Exelixis’s pipeline in a product
After Cabometyx’s latest clinical setback Exelixis might have to turn to follow-on projects for future growth.

The world's twelfth VEGF drug will be sold by Takeda
The Japanese company keeps the licensing fires burning with a $400m deal for Hutchmed’s fruquintinib.

Esmo 2022 movers – Kras backfires
Inhibition of Kras dominated Esmo, though probably not in the way some had hoped.

First-quarter biotech risers work hard for the win
Amid a difficult start to the year for the drug development sector, Abbvie, Bayer, Ipsen and Lantheus stand out as stock market gainers.

Biotech catalysts on the horizon
The second quarter should bring pivotal data for Karuna and key cardiomyopathy results for Alnylam, while Ionis's eplontersen lags in amyloidosis.

What Novartis could buy with its windfall
The group will get nearly $21bn for its Roche stake, and more if it sells Sandoz.

Treme climbs a new mountain
Astrazeneca’s Himalaya study is a surprising hit in first-line liver cancer, but competition is already present.