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As Trump 2.0 continues its assault on federally funded research, a new study highlights what's at stake
2. Chronic pain biotech co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy joins reverse merger train
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Genentech invests $750M in new factory; Bavarian Nordic delays Lyme vaccine trial
4. Exclusive: Two GOP lawmakers call on FDA to increase scrutiny of Chinese trial data following deaths
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Three deaths in China shake trust in the country's speedy clinical trial system
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Replimune lands commercial chief after hard-fought approval; Neumora's Paul Berns sheds CEO title
7. Exclusive: PhRMA considers a grab-bag of Republican policy wonks, former lawmakers for CEO post
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A new JAMA Oncology study underscores how the National Cancer Institute fills gaps in the research pipeline. That’s why, as John Carroll explains, the Trump administration’s budget cuts to federal cancer research funding are so devastating.

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The bio­phar­ma in­dus­try tipped the scales on can­cer re­search years ago. Where the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment once played a ma­jor role in de­ter­min­ing what was stud­ied...

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A Cal­i­for­nia biotech with a chron­ic pain drug that's long been ap­proved in Italy, but not the US, is go­ing on­to the pub­lic mar­kets through...

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