Johnson & Johnson strikes deal With Trump admn to cut drug costs, expand manufacturing

The agreement responds directly to President Trump’s demands that drugmakers cut costs for US patients

Alveus Therapeutics launches with $159.8m Series A to advance next-gen obesity drugs

ALV-100 is a bifunctional fusion protein combining glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR) antagonism with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonism

InflaRx shifts focus to lead drug, cuts costs by 30% to extend cash runway

InflaRx is streamlining operations and largely discontinuing non-essential activities outside izicopan’s development

Merck initiates phase 3 trial of calderasib with Keytruda QLEX for NSCLC

KRAS G12C-mutant advanced or metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer

PAI Pharma acquires Nivagen to boost US injectable drug production

The acquisition marks a major step in PAI’s strategy to expand domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing

Revvity and Lilly partner to accelerate AI drug discovery models

Collaboration funds participating biotechs to access Lilly predictive models through the Revvity Signals Xynthetica offering

Alkem launches innovative hair growth support therapy kit

The supplements are made using only vegetarian-sourced ingredients

GSK reports breakthrough results in chronic hepatitis B trials

WHO unveils updated HIV guidelines to boost treatment & save lives

The guidelines also support reusing tenofovir and abacavir in later regimens for improved outcomes, cost savings, and programmatic efficiency

Nimbus Therapeutics and Eli Lilly team up on novel obesity therapy

The partnership builds on a prior collaboration between Nimbus and Lilly targeting AMPK in cardiometabolic diseases