FDA places partial clinical hold on Merck and Daiichi Sankyo’s I-DXd lung cancer trial after interstitial lung disease deaths

FDA partial clinical hold; ifinatamab deruxtecan; I-DXd; IDeate-Lung02; Merck; Daiichi Sankyo; small cell lung cancer; interstitial lung disease; grade 5 ILD; antibody-drug conjugate; clinical trial deaths

White House unveils nine new “most-favored-nation” drug pricing deals

most-favored-nation pricing; MFN; drug pricing; White House; Trump administration; pharmaceutical manufacturers; Ozempic; Wegovy; Eli Lilly; Novo Nordisk; prescription drug costs; US healthcare policy

Moderna Lands CEPI as New Backer for Its Pandemic Flu (H5 Bird Flu) Program

Moderna; CEPI; Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; pandemic influenza; H5 bird flu; mRNA vaccine; Phase 3 trial; pandemic preparedness; vaccine development; funding

Models are out, molecules are in as AI drug startups sprint to the clinic

AI drug discovery; AI-designed molecules; clinical-stage AI startups; small-molecule therapeutics; biotech funding; Insilico Medicine; Recursion Pharmaceuticals; Absci; PsiThera; clinical trials