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FDA selected seven companies to participate in its new PreCheck Pilot Program, offering earlier regulatory engagement and expedited facility review to incentivize domestic drug manufacturing.

In today's Pharmaceutical Executive Daily, a pharma M&A roundup covers Ipsen's up to $1.75 billion acquisition of Kartos Therapeutics and Zymeworks' $929 million acquisition of Theravance Biopharma, Krista Pinto of Eversana argues that fully staffed pharma field teams are still missing revenue targets because the traditional deployment model itself needs to evolve, and EMA's CHMP issues a positive opinion recommending approval of Eli Lilly's Jaypirca for chronic lymphocytic leukemia across all lines of therapy in the European Union.

Zymeworks and Ipsen each announced acquisitions this week, with Zymeworks paying roughly $929 million for Theravance Biopharma to gain commercial COPD royalties and tax assets, and Ipsen committing up to $1.75 billion for Kartos Therapeutics to add navtemadlin.

Krista Pinto, EVERSANA’s president of deployment solutions, shares her perspective on why traditional field team models need to evolve to support future commercial success.

The decision was made based on the results of the BRUIN CLL-313 clinical study.

Healthspan is merging from obscure academic jargon as a potent consumer driver, reshaping how people think about aging and redefining pharma’s role in that process.

New data from ADA 2026 reveal that assumptions around age, weight, and gestational history are leaving too many T1D patients misclassified — and the clinical consequences are preventable.

In today's Pharmaceutical Executive Daily, the FDA approves Gilead's Trodelvy for the first-line treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer — as both a monotherapy and in combination with Keytruda — marking the first new backbone therapy option for this aggressive disease in more than two decades, Novartis announces a $105 million collaborative agreement with Antares Therapeutics to jointly discover and develop first-in-class precision medicines in oncology and other serious diseases, with potential milestones totaling $1.8 billion, and Pharmaceutical Executive speaks with Kyle Smith, president and COO of Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, on the real-world benefits and persistent challenges of operating as a fully domestic manufacturer in an era of tariffs and supply chain pressure.

Jeff Talbot of Roseman University of Health Sciences discusses how Las Vegas is positioning itself as a growing life sciences hub by offering cost-effective laboratory space, access to capital, and a flexible environment for biotech startups and emerging companies.

Once a niche pilot, direct-to-patient drug distribution is now a defining strategic priority, with manufacturers building the right infrastructure standing to capture margin, data, and patient relationships that used to belong to intermediaries.

Aprecia’s president and COO discusses the impact 3D printing technology is having on drug development, along with the benefits and challenges of being a company that is 100-percent US-based for its manufacturing.

The FDA has approved Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for first-line treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer as both a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab, supported by Phase 3 data from the ASCENT-03 and ASCENT-04 trials.

The FDA has approved Ibrance (palbociclib) in combination with trastuzumab, with or without pertuzumab, and endocrine therapy for the maintenance treatment of adults with HR-positive, HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer following induction treatment.