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Agreement – June 4, 2025

Camurus in agreement with Eli Lilly and Company

Camurus and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) have entered a collaboration and license agreement, granting Lilly exclusive, worldwide rights to the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of long-acting incretin products for cardiometabolic health based on Camurus’ FluidCrystal technology.

Pharma Business – June 24, 2025

Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic receives EU recommendation in peripheral arterial disease

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an update of the Ozempic (once-weekly semaglutide) label to reflect the positive data from the STRIDE peripheral artery disease (PAD) functional outcomes trial. STRIDE is the only dedicated PAD functional outcomes trial with a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor […]

Global report – June 13, 2025

AstraZeneca enters collaboration with CSPC Pharmaceuticals

AstraZeneca has entered a strategic research collaboration with Shijiazhuang City-based CSPC Pharmaceuticals Group Limited.

Collaboration – June 13, 2025

Salipro Biotech enters collaboration agreement with Daewoong Pharmaceutical

The collaboration combines Salipro Biotech’s expertise and its Salipro platform technology to stabilize a challenging drug target and advance Daewoong Pharmaceutical’s drug discovery programs for the generation of small molecule drugs.

Agreement – June 12, 2025

Key2Brain enters worldwide licensing agreement with Chiesi Group

The two companies will advance the development of two blood-brain barrier (BBB)-crossing recombinant enzyme replacement therapies (ERT) for lysosomal storage disorders (LSD), including alpha-mannosidosis (aMann) and Krabbe disease (KD), ultra-rare diseases that affect the central nervous system.

Clinical Trials

Clinical Trials – June 19, 2025

BioArctic to initiate next cohorts in Phase 2a study

The interim safety review of the clinical Phase 2a study EXIST showed exidavnemab to be safe and well-tolerated, whereby the second dose cohorts will now be initiated.

Clinical Trials – June 18, 2025

Kancera reports positive top-line results

The company has announced results from the KANDOVA study, a one-arm, open-label, multi-centre combined phase Ib/IIa study of KAND567 in combination with carboplatin in ovarian cancer.

Clinical Trials – June 18, 2025

Abera announces new study results

The company has presented results from a recently completed study that further demonstrates the potential of its vaccine platform for pandemic preparedness.

Clinical Trials – June 10, 2025

LEO Pharma initiates Phase 2a trial

The phase 2a proof-of-concept DELTA NEXT trial aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of delgocitinib cream compared to cream vehicle in the treatment of adults with mild to severe Palmoplantar Pustulosis (PPP).

Clinical Trials – June 4, 2025

OncoZenge appoints LINK Medical to execute Phase 3 feasibility study

LINK Medical has been engaged to conduct a feasibility study in Europe for the company’s planned Phase 3 study for European approval of BupiZenge.

Clinical Trials – May 26, 2025

Active lymphoma eliminated in two out of three patients in the first cohort of Elicera’s CARMA study

Preliminary principal investigator-assessed outcomes from the first patient cohort in the ongoing Phase I/IIa CARMA study with ELC-301 show that two out of three treated patients had no active lymphoma detected on specialized scans, achieving a complete metabolic response.

Clinical Trials – April 13, 2025

Orexo and Abera Bioscience announce positive data

The companies have announced positive in-vivo proof-of-concept data for a powder-based intranasal vaccine candidate formulated with the AmorphOX technology. The data was generated under the collaboration between Orexo and Abera Biosciences entered in December 2024. The aim of the collaboration is to develop mucosal vaccines by combining Orexo’s powder-based drug delivery technology AmorphOX with Abera’s […]

Clinical Trials – April 9, 2025

New clinical trial map launched in the EU

A new clinical trial map is now accessible from the public website of the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS).

Clinical Trials – March 25, 2025

Immunovia provides further positive data from the VERIFI study

Immunovia has announced additional results from the VERIFI study of its next-generation pancreatic cancer test, strengthening the company’s position as it prepares to launch the pancreatic cancer blood test commercially.

Clinical Trials – March 18, 2025

Oncorena receives FDA approval to initiate studies in the US

The FDA has approved the company’s IND application to initiate the Phase I/II study Oncorella-1.

Profiles in Pharma

Profiles in Pharma – April 2, 2025

The Jalkanens: A shared thirst for knowledge

For Sirpa and Markku Jalkanen of Finland, M.D. and Ph.D., married, immunotherapy researchers, working together came as naturally as a courtship.

Profiles in Pharma – November 1, 2023

Jonina Gudmundsdottir, Coripharma

In the heart of Iceland’s life sciences industry, Jonina Gudmundsdottir, the CEO of Coripharma, is making her mark. With a deep understanding of the industry’s challenges and a relentless drive for excellence, Gudmundsdottir has steered Coripharma toward transformative success. Iceland’s life sciences industry has thrived in recent years, propelled by its unique strengths. With a […]

Profiles in Pharma – July 3, 2023

Deborah Dunsire

The CEO of Lundbeck, who announced that she will retire last week, did not initially intend to join the life science industry, but it captivated her more than 30 years ago, and the ability to transform lives still drives her to this day. For more than 100 years, Lundbeck has been at the forefront of […]

Profiles in Pharma – October 1, 2021

Malin Parkler – Passionate about science, health & leadership

Malin Parkler, CEO of Pfizer Sweden, is driven by curiosity and a passion to build knowledge and evolve the life science industry – with the ultimate goal to yield real benefits for patients. Rarely has the world been more in need of leaders. As the global community struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic last year, people […]

Profiles in Pharma – August 15, 2019

Katarina Ageborg, CEO AstraZeneca Sweden

Few companies are as synonymous with Sweden as AstraZeneca and few CEOs as visible. Yet, Katarina Ageborg, AstraZeneca Sweden’s new CEO, prefers not to think about being center stage, but instead about what her position can do for the company, Sweden and the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. “I don’t think about it that way […]

Profiles in Pharma – July 1, 2017

Embracing diversity – for the sake of true innovation

Bahija Jallal’s curiosity and passion for science have been strong driving forces throughout her entire career, as has her belief in the need for diversity to truly bring forth innovation. A view that is also deeply incorporated in her job as Head of MedImmune. Editor’s note: In 2019 Bahika Jallal left MedImmune and became the […]

Profiles in Pharma – March 22, 2017

“The scientist in me wants to make a difference”

After ten years of diabetes research and development at Novo Nordisk, Dorte X. Gram took her findings and work further to start something on her own. As founder and CEO of PILA PHARMA she hopes to bring a new oral anti-diabetic agent to the market. What made you take the leap to go on your […]

Profiles in Pharma – March 8, 2017

“We have to embrace the new era of diabetes care”

Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Novo Nordisk, talks about the Danish pharma giant’s drug-development strategy, the new era of diabetes care and his 25 year-long passion for his job. The changing diabetes market, with increasing competition and high prices for diabetes products in the US, has made the world’s […]

Profiles in Pharma – February 16, 2017

From regulator to pharma industry specialist

Dr. Thomas Lönngren, former head of the EMA and today a pharmaceutical consultant, provides some insights on the aftermath of Brexit, describes current challenges the industry is facing and takes a short walk down memory lane on his career journey. The summer of 2016 will be remembered for many things; record temperatures, terrorist acts in […]

Profiles in Pharma – April 21, 2014

Jan Lundberg: The long view of R&D at Eli Lilly

Like sports, R&D requires team spirit, commitment, and a long view says Dr. Jan Lundberg, Lilly executive vice president for science and technology, and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. Dr. Jan Lundberg’s online bios and YouTube videos portray a steely pharmaceutical executive whose idea of fun is a 90 km ski race. It’s all true. […]