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June 23, 2025
Sarepta’s latest tragedy calls for FDA leadership, industry collaboration on AAV liver toxicity

A second non-ambulatory DMD patient has died in Sarepta’s ENVISION study of Elevidys

Editor's Commentary

Fritz Bittenbender: guiding BIO through an America First era

BIO’s new board chair on MFN pricing, political realism, and why the industry can’t just say no anymore

Politics, Policy & Law

Makary’s priority pathway charts new territory, linking regulatory decisions to national security

Industry enthusiastic about streamlining reviews, concerned the program could become politicized

Politics, Policy & Law

A $1B bet on gene editing could bolster Lilly’s CV pipeline

Verve takeout adds base editing platform with big CV market opportunities 

Deals

Product Development

Myostatin inhibition gets further PoC for lean mass preservation in obesity

Scholar Rock shows 55% lean mass preservation for apitegromab vs. Zepbound in Phase II readout

On heels of Metsera, Lilly delivers more momentum for amylin in obesity

ADA data show 11.5% placebo-adjusted weight loss at 12 weeks for eloralintide 

Emerging Company Profile

How to train your dragon: Welsh spinout Draig draws $140M for CNS programs

SV Health, others back programs from Cardiff University in nine-digit series A

Data Byte

CHMP recommends five new drugs 

Four of the five are already approved in the U.S.

Finance

Caris lands largest NASDAQ IPO in two years: Finance Report

Plus: Venture rounds for Welsh start-up Draig, San Diego’s Actio

Amid market challenges, Syncona restructures fund, seeks new evergreen vehicle

U.K. firm will steer portfolio toward returns for shareholders, while aiming to build new fund away from public markets

Management Tracks

Computational health sciences pioneer Atul Butte passes

Butte was chief data scientist for the University of California Health Care System

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