In July 2024, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche filed a lawsuit in a California district court that thrust Stanford University professors Maximilian Diehn and Ash Alizadeh into the center of a major controversy. This commercial dispute over cancer liquid biopsy technology not only involves $70 million in startup funding and a multibillion-dollar diagnostics market, but also exposes deep-rooted tensions between academic entrepreneurship and corporate interests in the biopharmaceutical sector. At t

In the biopharmaceutical industry, a quiet war is unfolding—one that involves billions of dollars in market value, patent strategies, and regulatory frameworks. The patent dispute between Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche and American biotech heavyweight Biogen over Tocilizumab has emerged as a focal point in the global competition surrounding biosimilars. This lawsuit not only concerns the commercial interests of the two companies but also reflects the deeper conflict between biologic patent pro

April 17, 2025 -- electroCore, Inc. (Nasdaq: ECOR), a commercial-stage bioelectronic medicine and wellness company, announced today that new data presented at the 2025 International Brain Injury Association World Congress highlights the effectiveness of gammaCore® non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) in treating concussive symptoms associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Dr. Michael Ament of Cherry Creek Neurology presented his study entitled, “Adjunctive Non-Invasive Vagus

April 21, 2025 -- Eascra Biotech announced today that they have been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $274,990 to conduct research and development (R&D) to advance drug delivery systems capable of effectively targeting solid tumors. Eascra’s JBNps (Janus base nanoparticles) are an entirely new type of delivery platform that mimics DNA. The platform delivers RNA therapeutics to hard-to-reach treatment sites like joint cartilage

April 23, 2025 -- Bluejay Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing potentially life-changing therapeutics for serious viral and liver diseases, today announced it will present new preclinical data on the characterization of BJT-188, a liver-targeted fatty acid synthase (FASN) inhibitor being investigated for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress 2025

April 21, 2025 -- Arvinas, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARVN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company working to develop a new class of drugs based on targeted protein degradation, today announced that new preclinical combination data for ARV-393 will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research® (AACR) Annual meeting, April 25-30, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. The poster highlights the potential for ARV-393 to be combined with various standard of care lymphoma treatments. ARV-393 is Arvinas’ in

In March 2025, the global pharmaceutical sector witnessed a surge of innovation where technology deeply integrates with clinical needs, spanning key areas such as gene therapy, antibiotic breakthroughs, targeted therapies for rare diseases, and vaccine upgrades. From Fitusiran (the world's first RNAi therapy for hemophilia) to Gepotidacin (a novel antibiotic combating drug-resistant strains), from Diazoxide Choline (the first targeted drug for Prader-Willi Syndrome) to the quadrivalent influenza

April 21, 2025 -- Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ENLV, the “Company”), a clinical-stage macrophage reprogramming immunotherapy company, today announced that the Company completed enrollment of all patients in the Phase II stage of its randomized, controlled, blinded Phase I/II trial of Allocetra™ in patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis. Overall, 133 patients were randomized and treated in the Phase II stage. Oren Hershkovitz, Ph.D, CEO of Enlivex, commented, “We are please

April 21, 2025 -- Compass Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMPX), a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary antibody-based therapeutics, announced the first patient has been dosed in an Investigator Sponsored Trial (IST) to evaluate tovecimig (CTX-009, a DLL4 x VEGF-A bispecific antibody) for the first time in the front-line setting for patients with biliary tract cancer (BTC). The IST is being conducted at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Neoadjuvant treatment with pepinemab appears to induce abundant, mature lymphoid structures that correlate with durable clinical benefit of immunotherapy in patients with metastatic melanoma. Pepinemab, Semaphorin 4D blocking immunotherapy, also appears to induce the formation of efficient lymphoid structures in “cold” tumors of patients with recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancer. April 21, 2025 -- Vaccinex, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCNX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering a diffe