After breaking through the blockbuster sales threshold in 2025, AstraZeneca’s three-in-one inhaler Breztri Aerosphere has passed another crucial milestone as it chips in on the British drugmaker’s goal to reach $80 billion in revenues by 2030. On Tuesday, the FDA approved Breztri in its second indication, clearing the triple combination therapy of budesonide, glycopyrrolate and formoterol fumarate as a maintenance treatment for asthma in adults and kids ages 12 and older. Breztri was first gree

April 28, 2026 -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) will host a webcast conference call today, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. ET to share results from the 24-month interim analysis of the PIVOT-HD long-term extension study of votoplam. PTC's partner Novartis stated on its quarterly earnings call today that long-term extension data are supportive of the now-initiated Novartis Phase 3 INVEST-HD study and Novartis and PTC will assess potential best next steps for the program including further actions wi

MENLO PARK, Calif.---Orca Bio, a late-stage biotechnology company committed to transforming the lives of patients through high-precision cell therapy, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to Orca-Q, Orca Bio’s second-generation investigational allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy for the treatment of high-risk hematologic malignancies. "The FDA’s RMAT designation for Orca-Q recognizes the significant un

Onco3R Therapeutics unveiled a new name and a fresh financing on Tuesday. Now operating as Coultreon Biopharma, the biotech bagged a $125-million A round backed by big pharma to begin Phase II studies of its lead candidate, COL-5671 (formerly O3R-5671). The company is developing therapeutics that modulate salt-inducible kinases (SIKs), a protein family linked to inflammatory pathway regulation, to treat autoimmune diseases. COL-5671 is an oral, once-daily inhibitor of SIK3, a target that Coultr

Transaction establishes global ownership rights of lead program and includes initial capital funding with additional optional milestone-based capital support aligned with key clinical milestones. April 24, 2026 / Telomir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TELO) ("Telomir" or the "Company"), a biotechnology company developing small-molecule therapeutics targeting epigenetic and metabolic drivers of cancer and age-related diseases, today announced the successful closing of its previously announced acq

April 29, 2026 - Addex Therapeutics (SIX: ADXN and Nasdaq: ADXN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a portfolio of novel small molecule allosteric modulators for neurological disorders, announced today encouraging preclinical data demonstrating antitussive activity of its GABAB positive allosteric modulator (PAM) candidate in a bleomycin (BLM)-induced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) exacerbated chronic cough model. “Chronic cough remains a significant unmet me

April 28, 2026 -- AcuraStem, a biotechnology company advancing treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and other neurodegenerative diseases, announced today that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the company $7.5 million in grant funding to support the advancement of its lead clinical candidate, AS-241, toward first–in–human testing. AS-241 is an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) designed to address a core molecular co

Clearance will accelerate development of a therapeutic for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) There are currently no approved treatment options for CRPS in the United States April 28, 2026 -- BRC Therapeutics (BRC), a pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for neurological and inflammatory diseases, announced today that the company can proceed with a Phase I study to further establish safety of BRC-002 in healthy volunteers. BRC-002 is a first-in-class investigational product aiming

– If confirmed by the European Commission, REDEMPLO would be the first and only siRNA medicine authorized in the EU for both genetically confirmed and clinically diagnosed adult patients with FCS – People living with FCS have extremely high triglyceride levels and a substantially higher risk of acute pancreatitis and related long-term complications, often resulting in a reduced quality of life – The CHMP opinion is based on positive results from the Phase 3 PALISADE study where REDEMPLO reduced

April 24, 2026 -- Levicept Ltd, a biotechnology company focused on the development of LEVI-04, a first-in-class treatment for osteoarthritis (OA), will today present positive data from its Phase II study of LEVI-04 in patients with pain and disability due to OA of the knee at OARSI 2026 World Congress on Osteoarthritis being held in West Palm Beach, FL 23-26 April. Levicept has been selected for four presentations including a podium session in which Professor Philip Conaghan MBBS PhD, Director