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JPM24 opens with ADCs the hottest ticket in San Francisco 


As cancer players jump head-first into ADC field, Novartis CEO explains how he's resisted the temptation 


Lilly CEO David Ricks to biotechs: 'We're open for business' 


Pfizer CEO promises 'year of execution' after recent struggles, Seagen buyout


Dexcom posts billion-dollar quarter, lays out plans to sell CGMs to insulin-free users 


Merck expects $20B+ in new cancer sales thanks to Daiichi ADC deal, Moderna vaccine

 

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JPM24 opens with ADCs the hottest ticket in San Francisco

The overall deal flow in biopharma tapered off in 2023 but the big companies sure know what they want (what they really, really want), according to a new report from J.P. Morgan.
 

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JPM24: As cancer players jump head-first into ADC field, Novartis CEO explains how he's resisted the temptation

Nearly all top cancer drugmakers have struck deals in the sizzling antibody-drug conjugate field—but not Novartis. On Monday, the Swiss pharma’s CEO Vas Narasimhan explained how he's resisted the temptation. 

JPM24: Lilly CEO David Ricks to biotechs: 'We're open for business'

Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks, speaking to the slow and steady progress that brought tirzepitide to the world, says the Indianapolis pharma is now ready to open up the chocolate factory.

JPM24: Pfizer CEO promises 'year of execution' after recent struggles, Seagen buyout

Pfizer knows it had a bad year in 2023. Speaking to reporters at the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, the company’s CEO, Albert Bourla, spoke bluntly about the hits the company took, and he acknowledged the underperformance of certain key launches.

JPM24: Dexcom posts billion-dollar quarter, lays out plans to sell CGMs to insulin-free users

2023 was a banner year for Dexcom. Not only did it undertake a new major product launch, but it received the largest expansion of insurance coverage in the company’s history. And it’s got the receipts to show for it.

JPM24: Merck expects $20B+ in new cancer sales thanks to Daiichi ADC deal, Moderna vaccine

While some Merck & Co. investors may still get the heebie-jeebies when thinking about Keytruda’s patent cliff in 2028, but the company’s CEO Rob Davis now thinks “it’s just another year.”

Alphabet’s Isomorphic stacks two new deals with Lilly, Novartis worth nearly $3B ahead of JPM

Just more than two years after launching within Alphabet, Isomorphic has inked two large pharma deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis with nearly $3 billion in combined deal value. 

Eli Lilly hits out against the use of Mounjaro, Zepbound for ‘cosmetic weight loss’

Eli Lilly is taking a stand against the use of its blockbuster GLP-1 receptor agonist for “cosmetic weight loss.” In an open letter, the drugmaker came out against the use of Mounjaro and Zepbound for cosmetic weight loss after becoming “aware of certain practices relating” to the medicines.

Seizure drug mechanism could treat osteoarthritis, mouse data suggests

New research findings in mice suggest that drugs that inhibit a key protein involved in the pain response, such as the anti-epileptic and bipolar disorder drug carbamazepine, may be effective at slowing the progression of osteoarthritis.

Novartis expands Pluvicto manufacturing footprint with FDA blessing of Indianapolis radiotherapy facility

Amid a manufacturing expansion spree for Pluvicto, Novartis is initiating a new commercial radiotherapy facility billed as “the company’s largest and most advanced in the world."
 
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