After a yearslong struggle, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has called time on Zepzelca as a second-line treatment for small cell lung cancer. In alignment with the FDA, Jazz plans to ask the agency to remove the second-line SCLC indication from Zepzelca’s label, the company said Monday alongside its second-quarter earnings report. The decision comes after the confirmatory phase 3 Lagoon trial recently failed on its primary endpoint of overall survival. In the study, Zepzelca (lurbinectedin) monotherapy

Aug. 04, 2026 -- Healis Therapeutics announced that it has opened an IND with the U.S. FDA for Tyemvers®, a new botulinum toxin type A product. The milestone enables Healis to initiate its U.S. clinical trial, enter clinical-stage research and development, and advance toward participation in the therapeutic botulinum toxin market. The Phase 1 single-ascending-dose study will evaluate Tyemvers’ safety and tolerability. Completion is expected to support Phase 2 studies in major depressive disor

DNTH312 is an internally developed bifunctional fusion protein targeting potent inhibition of active C1s (aC1s) and BAFF/APRIL, two validated pathways with complementary disease modifying mechanisms DNTH312 demonstrated comparable in vitro potency and aC1s inhibition to claseprubart, with a comparable non-human primate (NHP) half-life DNTH312 showed similar depth of Ig reductions vs. povetacicept following a single dose in NHPs By building on claseprubart’s best-in-class profile, DNTH312 strengt

Months after reports first linked Curium to a potential Lantheus takeover, the radiopharma players have made it official with a deal worth up to $8 billion. Curium has agreed to buy all outstanding Lantheus shares for $102.50 apiece in cash at closing. Shareholders could receive up to another $12 per share through contingent value rights tied to sales milestones for Lantheus’ prostate cancer, neurology and Definity franchises through 2030. The companies expect to close the transaction in the f

As the pharmaceutical industry works to accelerate every aspect of the drug development process, Dash Bio is leveraging automation to speed up one specific step that is still largely manual — the lab-based testing needed to establish a compound's safety and pharmacokinetic profile using preclinical and clinical samples. The service provider on Monday raised a $30-million series A, led by Oak HC/FT, to scale its commercial bioanalysis platform and expand its assay offerings. Existing investors F

Obsidian Therapeutics to focus on the advancement of its pipeline of novel engineered TIL cell therapies for the treatment of patients with solid tumors Post-transaction cash and cash equivalents of approximately $350 million expected to fund operations into 2H 2028, including NSCLC Phase 1 data expected in 1H 2027 and melanoma registration-enabling data expected year-end 2027 Shares to begin trading on Nasdaq under ticker symbol “OBX” on August 4, 2026 Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. (“Obsidian”)

Aug. 5, 2026 -- SystImmune, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company and subsidiary of Biokin, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in BrenDeLL-Lung01 (NCT07625644), a global Phase 3 registrational trial evaluating BL-M14D1 in combination with atezolizumab for the treatment of patients with previously untreated extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC). BL-M14D1 is an investigational DLL3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) built on SystImmune's proprietary brengi

Silexion Therapeutics Reports New Positive Preclinical Findings Demonstrating Multi-Mechanism Immune Sensitization by SIL204 in KRAS-Driven Cancers Silexion to present SIL-204 data at leading Cancer Symposium designed to feature the latest science in the field of GI cancers New preclinical data demonstrate that SIL204 treatment produced statistically significant upregulation of FAS (CD95), the immune “death receptor,” and statistically significant downregulation of HLA-G, an established immune c

-- First-in-human trial of LBL-051 is enrolling patients with refractory autoimmune diseases to rapidly generate broad proof of concept -- August 4, 2026 - Oblenio Bio (“Oblenio” or “the Company”) today announced that the first patients have been dosed in its Phase 1a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating LBL-051, the company's tri-specific T cell engager targeting BCMA, CD19 and CD3. Specifically engineered for autoimmune patients, LBL-051 is designed to safely induce complete depletion of

Aug. 3, 2026 -- GlycoNex Inc. (TPEx: 4168) today announced that the first patient has been successfully dosed in the First-in-Human (FIH) Phase I clinical trial of GNX1021, the Company's novel glycan-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), in Japan. The milestone marks GNX1021's transition into clinical development and initiates the generation of the first human data for the Company's lead oncology asset. The start of dosing represents an important value inflection point for GlycoNex. It advan