Sept. 16, 2025
| Today’s news and insights for biopharma leaders
A deal with Dutch startup VarmX gives CSL an option to buy a Phase 3-ready drug that could reverse the effects of popular anticoagulants like Eliquis, which carry the risk of internal bleeding.
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Led by former founders of a biotech AstraZeneca acquired in 2023, AllRock Bio is starting out with a drug licensed from Sanofi that’ll be tested against pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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HHS nominated five new members to ACIP ahead of a meeting Thursday and Friday that could prove an inflection point in HHS Secretary’s Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul U.S. vaccine policy.
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Smarter cold chain design starts with thermal modeling—learn best practices here.
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Versant Ventures co-led investments in AllRock and Dualitas Therapeutics, a developer of bispecific drugs for immune diseases that also launched on Tuesday.
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Deep Dive
The AI models, which are built on massive datasets and can be adapted to multiple tasks, have become a part of medtech companies’ lexicon in the past few years.
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The company’s new partnership with the "molecular glue” drug developer is broad, focused on immunology and could be worth up to $5.7 billion.
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