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2 days ago | fiercepharma.com | Zoey Becker

As part of a multi-year collaboration, GSK and India’s Bharat Biotech are redoubling their efforts to bring the world’s first malaria vaccine to more countries in need at affordable prices. Mosquirix, or RTS.S., was brought to the world stage by GSK and PATH (formerly known as Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) in 2021 as the first malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

4 days ago | fiercepharma.com | Zoey Becker

With a goal of boosting its life sciences economy into the top three of the global rankings by 2035, the U.K. government is laying out six specific areas of focus to bolster its growth in the industry. The interventions (PDF) come via the government’s new “Modern Industrial Strategy,” which prioritizes eight high-growth sectors and builds on a previous “Invest 2035” plan that was floated last year.

4 days ago | fiercepharma.com | Eric Sagonowsky

Only a few days after reports emerged that the director of the FDA's cell and gene therapy office had been abruptly put on administrative leave, a new departure shows that an intense period of leadership turnover at the agency isn't over. On Monday, Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, the acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), wrote in an email to colleagues that she'd be retiring from the agency in July, according to reports in Bloomberg, Endpoints News and Stat.

4 days ago | fiercepharma.com | Fraiser Kansteiner

With detailed readouts from a suite of late-stage trials now on tap, Eli Lilly is heading to regulators in pursuit of a green light for its once-a-week insulin asset efsitora alfa.

1 week ago | fiercepharma.com | Zoey Becker

As the saying goes, “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” Biogen and ad agency 21Grams took that mantra to heart with their Gold Pharma Lions–winning social media campaign, “Friedreich’s Back,” for Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) treatment Skyclarys. At this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, they shared how they walked the fine line of humor in drug advertising.