State of the Bio/Pharma Workforce: A Comparative Analysis of Employment Trends and Industry Sentiment

Deborah Waterhouse is leaving ViiV Healthcare to become CEO and managing director of CSL.

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, agrees to acquire Silence Therapeutics for roughly $1.3 billion, gaining a siRNA asset, divesiran.

Roche licenses Rona Therapeutics’ ALK7-targeting RNAi candidate for obesity, while Pfizer partners with Enodia Therapeutics on Sec61 inhibitor discovery.

As CROs, labs, and other outside partners gain early access to trial and FDA data that sponsor employees have, experts say closing the gap starts with rewriting confidentiality language.

Thomas Appio has been named interim CEO of Bausch + Lomb, a move coinciding with an expected upward revision to the company’s full-year guidance.

Incubate’s John Stanford on why MFN is voluntary in name only — and why the moonshot is the first casualty of drug pricing pressure.

FDA grants Ultomiris accelerated approval for primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy, a pharma funding roundup covers Alcon’s $550 million acquisition of Neurotech and AI Proteins’ collaboration with Astellas, and Incubate’s John Stanford on which therapeutic areas MFN deals might hit hardest.

Alcon is acquiring Neurotech Pharmaceuticals to add the only FDA-approved MacTel cell therapy to its retina portfolio, while AI Proteins has enters a collaboration with Astellas to design novel miniprotein therapeutics.