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Havas will lead Indivior’s…

February 24th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Havas will lead Indivior’s integrated strategy, creative, media and digital efforts across healthcare professional and direct-to-consumer audiences.

The new plants are the latest in a…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

The new plants are the latest in a string of recent investments AbbVie has made in U.S. manufacturing, filling out the company's plan to infuse $100 billion into its American operations over the next decade.

Roche’s Enspryng is making solid…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Roche’s Enspryng is making solid progress as a treatment for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. But the company’s efforts to expand its use to a new indication is coming up short.

With the Supreme Court’s rebuke…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

With the Supreme Court’s rebuke of President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs Friday, the U.S. administration’s international trade agenda is facing a new threat. At least one major partner has pumped the brakes on a deal

Bayer has filed a false…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Bayer has filed a false advertising lawsuit taking issue with claims made by Johnson & Johnson to pit their prostate cancer drugs against one another.

With a productive working…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

With a productive working relationship between the two companies already well established, Bora Pharmaceuticals is renewing a $250 million global manufacturing agreement with British drugmaker GSK.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is riding a…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is riding a regulatory roller coaster over the last few months with two FDA approvals and one rejection. On Friday, the U.S. regulator signed off on Vanda's Bysanti, an atypical antipsychotic treatment for

The patent cliff for Keytruda is…

February 23rd, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

The patent cliff for Keytruda is fast approaching in the U.S. Now, as Merck & Co. increasingly looks to life after its oncology megablockbuster, the company is honing its focus on new and upcoming medicines

About a month after securing a…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

About a month after securing a label expansion from the FDA for multidose pen versions of Zepbound, Eli Lilly is making the KwikPens available to self-paying users of its direct-to-consumer drug sales platform.

Catalent is cutting more roles at…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Catalent is cutting more roles at its gene therapy manufacturing facility in Harmans, Maryland. This round of layoffs will affect 93 employees at the Harmans facility and three more in nearby Baltimore.

Gilead penned a potential $1.5…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Gilead penned a potential $1.5 billion synthetic lethality deal with a Chinese biotech. A cell therapy company could end a one-year-plus biotech IPO drought in Tokyo. Novo Nordisk faces increased GLP-1 competition in China. And

After the pharmaceutical industry…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

After the pharmaceutical industry spent much of the past year safeguarding its businesses against the threat of U.S. import tariffs, a new Supreme Court ruling now waylays the Trump administration's trade agenda—at least in part.

AstraZeneca has secured a key…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

AstraZeneca has secured a key regulatory win in its effort to reclaim the lead in the BTK inhibitor market, with the FDA approving its Calquence plus Venclexta as the first all-oral, fixed-duration regimen for first-line

After manufacturing the antibiotic…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

After manufacturing the antibiotic Rocephin for four decades—and developing it into one of the company’s first blockbuster medicines—Roche is looking to divest the treatment and its production facility near its headquarters in Switzerland.

Novartis will transfer its 70.68%…

February 20th, 2026|Fierce Pharma|

Novartis will transfer its 70.68% stake in Novartis India Limited—a Bombay Stock Exchange-listed company that primarily handles older and off-patent drugs in areas like immunology, neuroscience and pain—to a group of private equity firms.