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1. Breaking: FDA Commissioner Makary to be fired, WSJ reports
2. Updated: Odyssey CEO talks about $279M IPO and building a 'permanent' biotech
3. Daiichi Sankyo posts 'extraordinary loss' of nearly $1B after overestimating need for ADC capacity
4. ‘Pharma, not really’: Why AI’s top young talent isn’t interested in a career at big drugmakers
5. Capricor sues Nippon Shinyaku over Duchenne drug 'pricing flaw' and launch prep
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Eli Lilly’s obesity pill Foundayo continues to trail Novo Nordisk’s rival Wegovy pill in terms of early demand. Leerink analysts said Foundayo was prescribed about 7,300 times in its fourth week on the market — roughly a quarter of the prescriptions written for oral Wegovy in its fourth week post-launch. But the analysts noted that Foundayo’s stats are "significantly understated." Meanwhile, Lilly is ramping up its efforts to build brand familiarity, with executives recently touting a "full scale" direct-to-consumer and TV launch coming in the third quarter.

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office (Francis Chung/Politico via AP Images)
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by Drew Armstrong

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is plan­ning to fire FDA Com­mis­sion­er Mar­ty Makary, the Wall Street Jour­nal re­port­ed on Fri­day.

The plans haven't been fi­nal­ized and could...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Odyssey Ther­a­peu­tics pulled to­geth­er $279 mil­lion from its ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing, the au­toim­mune dis­ease drug de­vel­op­er said Thurs­day night.

Odyssey be­gan trad­ing on the Nas­daq...

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by Anna Brown

Dai­ichi Sankyo is scrap­ping plans to build an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gate man­u­fac­tur­ing ca­pac­i­ty and record­ed an "ex­tra­or­di­nary loss" of 149.4 bil­lion Japan­ese yen ($950 mil­lion) af­ter over­promis­ing...

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by Andrew Dunn

RIO DE JANEIRO — Maz­dak Ab­ul­na­ga should be the poster child for the type of em­ploy­ee phar­ma com­pa­nies want to hire this year.

Ab­ul­na­ga, a...

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by Ayisha Sharma

Capri­cor Ther­a­peu­tics said Thurs­day it has filed a law­suit against Nip­pon Shinyaku over a dis­tri­b­u­tion and com­mer­cial­iza­tion agree­ment for de­ramio­cel, a cell ther­a­py can­di­date for...

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Peer Review: Weekly biopharma job report
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by Alex Hoffman, Kyle LaHucik

→ It didn’t take long for Na­tal­ie Holles to re­bound af­ter the de­ci­sion to wind down op­er­a­tions at her pre­vi­ous com­pa­ny. She