Budget 2026 -27: Pharma sector cheers Rs. 10,000 crore Biopharma plan

The Union Budget makes a clear and timely choice by placing biopharma at the centre of India’s next manufacturing wave

Lantern Pharma launches AI Center of Excellence in Bengaluru to scale precision drug discovery globally

Amgen snaps up UK biotech Dark Blue Therapeutics in up to $840m oncology deal

The privately held biotech brings a first-in-class oncology program focused on small molecule–targeted protein degradation

SN Bioscience’s SNB-101 wins FDA orphan drug designation for gastric cancer

The drug, currently in a phase 1b/2 clinical trial for small cell lung cancer, is a polymer nanoparticle formulation of SN-38

Chugai’s Tecentriq gets green light in Japan for hard-to-treat Thymic Carcinoma

The drug had previously received orphan drug designation for this rare cancer on March 31, 2025

Godavari Biorefineries launches US biotech arm to advance novel cancer therapies

The move strengthens GBL’s clinical-stage presence in the United States

Anil Koul joins Mankind Pharma as Group Chief Scientific Officer

More than five drug candidates from his team progressed to human trials including drugs like Rilematovir (Phase IIb), and Bedaquiline

Lilly drug cuts risk of cancer progression, extends survival in advanced breast cancer trial

Updated results from the EMBER-3 study showed that the drug -- Inluriyo (imlunestrant) -- as a standalone treatment cut the risk of progression or death by 38%

FDA nods spotlight precision oncology platforms as market surges towards $212 billion by 2034

The U.S. oncology market is projected to soar from $81 billion in 2025 to $212 billion by 2034

New oral SERD from Roche delivers significant survival edge in early breast cancer

At the trial’s pre-specified interim analysis, giredestrant achieved a hazard ratio of 0.70, marking a statistically significant improvement in invasive disease-free survival