The new partnership follows Roche’s recent R&D expansion in Boston focused on development for cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases. Roche is doling out $70 million to pair up with Atavistik Bio in hopes of discovering new small molecule therapeutics against cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, with an additional $1.9 billion in biobucks up for grabs. The Big Pharma is joining forces with the hematology-focused biotech to use its allosteric drug discovery platform, dubbed AMPS,

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: LGND) today announced that it has entered into a financing agreement with AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage cell therapy company developing controllable, allogeneic CAR-T therapies for patients with cancer, for up to $47 million. The investment will help advance AvenCell’s pipeline, including AVC-201 for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and AVC-203 for the treatment of B-cell malignancies. Under the terms

First-in-class KRAS-payload leveraging synchronized EGFR inhibition Sept. 27, 2026 -- HUTCHMED (China) Limited (“HUTCHMED” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that it has initiated the Phase Ia part of a global clinical trial of HMPL-A830 in patients with unresectable, advanced or metastatic solid tumors. The first patient received the first dose in China on September 24, 2026. An Antibody-Targeted Therapy Conjugate (“ATTC”) enables tumor-specific activity of potent, ce

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Eisai today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the dual oral regimen of WELIREG® (belzutifan), Merck’s first-in-class oral hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2α) inhibitor, plus LENVIMA® (lenvatinib), the orally available multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) discovered by Eisai, for the treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma with a clear cell compon

New results suggest earlier treatment may increase the likelihood of long-term remission Study adds to Johnson & Johnson's overwhelming body of evidence supporting its innovative multiple myeloma therapies in second line, where earlier intervention may increase long-term remission and disease control Sept. 25, 2026 -- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), a worldwide leader in multiple myeloma therapies, announced today new long-term follow-up data from the initial subgroup of cohort A in the Phase 2 C

This milestone marks the first IND submission from XtalPi's proprietary pipeline, recently unveiled in its interim results, validating the company's AI and robotics-driven drug discovery platform and its transition to a clinical-stage organization. Preclinical data demonstrate sub-nanomolar potency (< 1 nM) alongside a gut-to-blood exposure ratio exceeding 1,000:1, confining pharmacological activity to the gastrointestinal tract to limit systemic exposure. The candidate is the industry's firs

UK-based Basecamp Research has secured $140m in a Series C funding round to train a new generation of its EDEN biological foundation models and advance AI-designed therapies towards clinical development. S32 led the oversubscribed financing round. Investors included Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, and Firebrand River Capital. Other backers were Nvidia, PostScriptum, Redalpine, The Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI and True Ventures. The company said the late

Based on VOLGA Phase III trial results which demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in event-free survival and overall survival AstraZeneca’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for IMFINZI ® (durvalumab) in combination with enfortumab vedotin (EV) has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for the treatment of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are ineligible for or have declined cisplatin-based chemotherapy

The FDA has greenlit Elevar Therapeutics' Lyrfigtu (lirafugratinib) for adults with previously treated, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma harbouring an FGFR2 gene fusion or other rearrangement. The approval covers patients who have received prior chemotherapy or chemoimmunotherapy and who have not previously been treated with an FGFR inhibitor. The filing was supported by Phase I/II data from the ReFocus trial involving a cohort of 116 patients with unresectable o

Sept. 24, 2026 -- Amberstone Biosciences, Inc., a preclinical-stage oncology company developing pH-gated, tumor-activated T-cell engagers (TCEs), today announced a collaboration and license agreement with Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc., a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company (2696.HK). Under the agreement, Amberstone will work with Henlius to apply its proprietary T-MATE™ (Tumor Microenvironment Activated ThErapeutics) platform technology to generate preclinical candidates against up to tw