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1. Exclusive: Another I&I biotech, Gerhart-led cAMPfield, draws top-tier investors in $180M Series A
2. Post-Hoc: The next big pharma company will come from China
3. Driven by GLP-1s, pharma’s relationship with consumers is starting to change
4. Parabilis reveals IPO plans the day after Regeneron deal as listings heat up
5. GHO Capital, CBC Group to merge, forming what could be the largest healthcare specialist investor
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Drew Armstrong
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We have two dispatches from our summit last week with the Financial Times: Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer wrote about how pharma's embrace of direct-to-consumer channels is changing their relationship with patients. And I wrote about a question I keep getting: When will we get a Chinese big pharma company?

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Drew Armstrong
Executive Editor, Endpoints News
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by Kyle LaHucik

The mon­ey con­tin­ues to flow for drug de­vel­op­ment star­tups that are work­ing on in­flam­ma­to­ry and im­munol­o­gy med­i­cines li­censed from oth­er com­pa­nies.

A new San Diego...

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Endpoints News Executive Editor Drew Armstrong leads a conversation on China biopharma at the Financial Times summit, with Susan Winckler, CEO of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, and Caitlin Frazer, executive director of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (courtesy of The Financial Times)
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by Drew Armstrong

Last week at our bio­phar­ma and health­care sum­mit with the Fi­nan­cial Times, I was asked dur­ing one of our breaks when we’ll see the...

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Endpoints News Deputy Editor Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer (R) speaks onstage at the US Pharma and Biotech Summit 2026 (Photographer: Viktoria Warpas)
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by Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer

Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies’ abil­i­ty to in­ter­act with the pa­tients tak­ing their med­ica­tions has changed over the last few years.

The rise of di­rect-to-con­sumer chan­nels, dri­ven large­ly...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Para­bilis Med­i­cines, the decade-old and well-fund­ed "un­drug­gable" biotech out of Greg Ver­dine's Har­vard lab, seeks to be­come the 12th drug de­vel­op­er to con­duct an...

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by Reynald Castaneda, Anna Brown

Eu­ro­pean health­care in­vestor GHO Cap­i­tal and as­set man­age­ment firm CBC Group are set to join forces, with the new en­ti­ty to man­age over $21 bil­lion...

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by Lei Lei Wu