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Opinion: How Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early ’90s

STAT

To be clear, I’m not writing this to claim credit for discovery or development of GLP-1s or anything like that. Rather, I think the story offers valuable lessons on drug development for pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and the general public alike. Read the rest…

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STAT+: AI drug firm Recursion moves from survival to industry domination

STAT

. The company — or, at least, what existed at its founding in 2013 — hoped to pull data from images of healthy and diseased cells, and use that data to identify drugs gathering dust on pharmaceutical company shelves that could be repurposed as rare disease treatments. 

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STAT+: A ‘blank check’: Bill to boost antibiotic development blasted as a ‘flawed’ giveaway to pharma

STAT

The legislation, known as the Pasteur Act, would encourage drug development by creating a subscription-style business model in which the U.S. The idea is to enable pharmaceutical companies to recover their costs and make an appropriate profit without having to sell large volumes of antibiotics.

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Opinion: STAT+: How to keep the BIOSECURE Act from hobbling U.S. biotech and pharma

STAT

The BIOSECURE Act would prohibit many biotech and pharmaceutical companies from conducting certain research and development activities, including the manufacturing of drugs through named Chinese companies. BIOSECURE proponents argue that allowing the Chinese Communist Party access to U.S.

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Digital transformation can accelerate drug development and discovery process

Express Pharma

Ever-increasing drug discovery and development timelines are a multiscale issue causing delays in patient access to medicines and increasing costs for pharmaceutical companies.

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Opinion: STAT+: Eli Lilly chief scientist Daniel M. Skovronsky: Beware elected leaders who would weaken patents

STAT

As Election Day 2024 gets closer, STAT’s First Opinion asked executives from leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies to reflect on how their industry is being portrayed in the presidential campaign — and what their hopes are for a new presidential administration. You

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Top U.S. addiction researcher calls GLP-1 data for addiction ‘very, very exciting’

STAT

Early data regarding the use of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to treat addiction is “very, very, exciting,” Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said Thursday. drug crisis with urgency.