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It looks like HHS is pushing to allow compounding pharmacies to make popular wellness peptides. Even though there aren't many details yet, compounders appear to see this as a big win. Know more? Message Shelby, who follows all things compounding and peptides for us.

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by Maggie Fick

Paulo Fon­toura took over as Sanofi’s glob­al head of R&D in Sep­tem­ber af­ter 16 years at Roche and a re­cent stint at AI drug dis­cov­ery...

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by Anna Brown

Eli Lil­ly se­cured EU reg­u­la­to­ry back­ing for its oral GLP-1 pill or­for­glipron on Fri­day as it looks to catch up with com­peti­tor No­vo’s We­govy pill...

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by Kyle LaHucik

City Ther­a­peu­tics be­came the 26th biotech to com­plete an ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing in 2026 when it be­gan trad­ing Fri­day morn­ing, adding to a bois­ter­ous re­bound...

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Health Tech Day 2026
The entire healthcare ecosystem is more Silicon Valley-ified than ever before. What tech has actually changed? Is biopharma behind? Find out, join us for Health Tech day.
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by Max Bayer, Robert Postings

The Chi­nese Min­istry of Com­merce is clamp­ing down on the kinds of deals do­mes­tic com­pa­nies can make, but the free-flow­ing li­cens­ing of drugs ap­pears to...

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by Kyle LaHucik, Max Bayer

Eli Lil­ly is in­ter­est­ed in R&D ef­forts to “im­prove the pro­file of ibo­gaine,” the phar­ma gi­ant’s neu­ro­science pres­i­dent said at a psy­che­delics con­fer­ence Thurs­day.

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by ENDPOINTS

Plus news about Mi­cro­bi­ot­i­ca, Cyra­no Ther­a­peu­tics and Opus Ge­net­ics.

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