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Karen Weintraub
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GSK said two years ago it wasn't interested in obesity, but two recent deals suggest it's getting close. The latest is a pairing with Chinese startup SiranBio for $55 million upfront and as much as $1 billion total for rights to its next-generation obesity medicine. Kyle LaHucik has the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Kyle LaHucik

GSK is fur­ther delv­ing in­to the car­diometa­bol­ic space — and deep­en­ing its re­la­tion­ship with Chi­na biotechs — in a $1 bil­lion biobucks deal with an...

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ParcelBio co-founders Chris Carlson (L) and David Weinberg
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by Ryan Cross

Two sci­en­tists think they've solved a tech­ni­cal prob­lem that has kept the mR­NA rev­o­lu­tion from reach­ing its full po­ten­tial.

Now, they're launch­ing Parcel­Bio with $13...

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by Max Gelman

Ava­lo Ther­a­peu­tics’ come­back bid surged for­ward Tues­day af­ter­noon, as the im­munol­o­gy biotech se­cured a mid-stage tri­al win in an in­flam­ma­to­ry skin dis­or­der.

Ava­lo saidthat...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

🚀 Madri­gal Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal­s' MASH drug beats ex­pec­ta­tions: The biotech’s Rezd­if­fra sales came in at $311 mil­lion for the first quar­ter, sur­pass­ing an­a­lysts’ pro­jec­tions by about...

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Mike Doustdar, Novo Nordisk CEO (Nichlas Pollier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)