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Today’s BioPharm Brief looks at a new cardiovascular indication for Mounjaro, a billion-dollar ADC deal, and a potential new biosimilar competitor for Kadcyla.

Eron Kelly, CEO of ConcertAI, and Shaalan Beg, MD, chief medical officer, oncology, ConcertAI, discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate clinical trial design, patient identification, and site selection while maintaining trust in clinical data.

TSY-110 could become the first biosimilar rival to Roche's ado-trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla), a $2.5 billion HER2 breast cancer therapy.

DualityBio Licenses DUPAC ADC Payload Platform to Genentech in Deal Worth Up to More Than $1 Billion
DualityBio's DUP5 payload shrank tumors resistant to topoisomerase inhibitor ADCs, backing its new $1 billion-plus deal with Genentech.

The FDA has approved Lilly's tirzepatide (Mounjaro) to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events in adults with type 2 diabetes at high risk, based on the head-to-head SURPASS-CVOT trial showing non-inferiority to dulaglutide (Trulicity), making it the first GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist with this indication.

Today’s BioPharm Brief covers positive Phase 3 data for Akeso’s ivonescimab in biliary tract cancer, FDA Fast Track designation for CytomX’s Varseta-M in colorectal cancer, and positive Phase 3 results for Tezspire in eosinophilic esophagitis.

Celularity has entered a US manufacturing collaboration with MuseCell Innovations to produce Dezawa MuseCells and related exosome and secretome products at Celularity's Florham Park, New Jersey facility, a relationship that could generate more than $300 million in aggregate purchases over five years.

Mayo Clinic’s Dr Keith L. Knutson and CellxLife’s Dr. von Hofe discuss why cancer vaccines may succeed where checkpoint inhibitors fall short in 60 to 70% of patients.

Akeso's PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody ivonescimab met its primary endpoint of overall survival against durvalumab plus chemotherapy in the phase 3 HARMONi-GI1 trial for first-line advanced biliary tract cancer, marking the first phase 3 readout for ivonescimab outside non-small cell lung cancer.

Varsetatug masetecan (Varseta-M) posted a 32% response rate in colorectal cancer, backing its new FDA fast track designation.

Amgen and AstraZeneca's tezepelumab (Tezspire) eased swallowing and cut esophagus inflammation in a 368-patient trial through week 52.

Today’s BioPharm Brief covers FDA approval of daraxonrasib for metastatic pancreatic cancer, the first patient dosed in HaemaLogiX’s KMCAR CAR-T trial, and a new collaboration to advance cell-free synthetic DNA for viral vector manufacturing.

FDA's 2025–2026 guidance changes would substantially streamline biosimilar development, including by reducing comparative efficacy and switching-study requirements. Here's what's confirmed, what industry has criticized about the existing pathway, and what's still unresolved.

The FDA has cleared daraxonrasib, the first RAS(ON) tri-complex inhibitor to reach approval, validating a mechanism-driven platform approach to a historically undruggable oncogene family in pancreatic cancer.

HaemaLogiX has dosed the first patient in its Phase 1 KOALA trial of KMCAR T-cell therapy, a novel CAR-T designed to selectively target kappa-restricted multiple myeloma cells while sparing healthy immune cells, with the treatment reported as well tolerated and a second patient enrolling at a higher dose.



















