In this week’s Peer Review: ex-iTeos CEO Michel Detheux takes the helm at GSK neuro partner Muna Therapeutics, Srishti Gupta returns as CEO at NovaBridge Biosciences and Genentech loses another veteran scientist as Eric Stefanich retires. https://t.co/kQPjAd9QHc
Celea raised $180M to advance its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis drug into Phase 3 testing, following fellow PureTech spinouts Karuna and Seaport. https://t.co/61twiIbSHg
Revolution Medicines is moving its two-drug KRAS combination into Phase 3 testing for pancreatic cancer, after early data showed responses in half of second-line patients. https://t.co/bBbhAQ54XF
BrightGene's obesity shot showed strong weight loss data in China, outpacing Lilly's Zepbound in the same market as it nears approval there. https://t.co/RsuOxr44mG
Roche's divarasib beat Amgen's and Bristol Myers' drugs in a head-to-head Phase 3 lung cancer trial, improving both survival measures. https://t.co/2YG9LGzG9M
Abivax says new trial data show cancer cases in its ulcerative colitis drug fall within the expected range, easing safety concerns that surfaced earlier this month. https://t.co/0y8ruDgJ43
NEW: Anthropic just announced a new product in Claude Science, aiming to achieve a Code-like vision for bioscientists
I talked with Eric Kauderer-Abrams on the launch, as well as what that Coefficient Bio acquisition was all about: https://t.co/NRgXm9kf2E
Anthropic is launching Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientific research, in its biggest push into biopharma yet, debuting alongside leaders from Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb and Genentech. https://t.co/WpQmxo1JnH
Virtual mental health companies are racing to build their own therapy chatbots, but they disagree on a key question: whether to train the AI on real patient sessions or on synthetic conversations that never happened. https://t.co/8fFT73fESj
FDA's acting director of cell and gene therapies Vijay Kumar tells me he's not being pushed out as the super office chief and one year was enough - he's looking for new internal FDA and external positions - https://t.co/NkHPh0wvKo
The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted pivotal data for Amgen's Tavneos, adding to the autoimmune drug's troubles as US and European regulators move to pull it from the market. https://t.co/rFX0hODsIo
Exclusive: The House Select Committee on China is questioning Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer over their use of clinical trial sites in China, including facilities tied to the Chinese military and the Xinjiang region. https://t.co/CXSGOvfzai
Are pharma's China deals the new tax inversions?
Today I wrote about one of my earliest beats in healthcare: M&A transactions that let US companies flip their tax jurisdiction to low-cost Ireland... until Congress and the Obama admin got fed up: https://t.co/PknyEyXOEu