GSK enters agreement to acquire Nuvalent for $10.6 Billion
On Jun. 9, 2026, GSK announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Nuvalent, a Boston-based clinical-stage…
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Johnson & Johnson to Acquire Firefly Bio for $1 Billion in Cash to Expand Oncology Pipeline
On Jun. 8, 2026, Johnson & Johnson announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Firefly…
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Pfizer and China’s Innovent Biologics Enter Global Strategic Collaboration worth $9.85 billion to Accelerate Development of Oncology Medicines
On May 28, 2026, Pfizer and Innovent Biologics announced the companies have entered into a strategic global licensing…
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FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Gilead’s Hepcludex® (bulevirtide-gmod), the First and Only Approved Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis Delta Virus
On May 22, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted…
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Gilead Receives CHMP Positive Opinion for Trodelvy® in First-Line Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
On May 22, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of…
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Bristol Myers Squibb and Hengrui Pharma Announce Strategic Agreements to Advance Innovative Medicines in Deal Worth $15.2 billion
On May 12, 2026, Bristol Myers Squibb and Hengrui Pharma announced the companies have entered into global strategic…
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Thousands of previously unknown proteins discovered
On May 6, 2026, a group of international researchers announced they had discovered 1,700 new proteins. The research…
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Study Reports unprecedented view of the immune system’s killer cells
On May 4, 2026, a study conducted by the University of Geneva and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)…
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Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Genomics | Neurology | Non-Profit Research | Oncology | Therapeutics
Biohub Launches the Virtual Biology Initiative to Galvanize a Global Effort to Create the Open Data Foundation for AI-Accelerated Biolog
On Apr. 29, 2026, Biohub announced the Virtual Biology Initiative, a landmark five-year initiative to galvanize a global…
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Lilly to acquire Kelonia Therapeutics for $3.25 billion to advance in vivo CAR-T cell therapies
On Apr. 20, 2026, Eli Lilly and Kelonia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering in vivo gene delivery,…
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Cancer Center at Illinois Earns Prestigious National Cancer Institute Designation
On Apr. 16, 2026, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) announced it has been designated as a Basic…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Genomics | Oncology | Therapeutics
Roche Expands Foundation Medicine With Acquisition of SAGA Diagnostics’ Tumor-Informed Molecular Residual Disease Platform for $595 million
On Apr. 15, 2026, Foundation Medicine, an independent affiliate of the Roche group, announced it is set to…
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Hidden mutations in immune cells linked to autoimmune disease
On Apr. 14, 2026, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), the…
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Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
On Apr. 8, 2026, the Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its…
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Gilead to Acquire Tubulis for $5 Billion to Further Strengthen Oncology Pipeline
On Apr. 7, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tubulis, a…
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Life Science Industry’s Rapid Growth in Washington State Challenged by NIH Budget Cuts
On Apr. 7, 2026, LifeScienceHistory.com, formerly WashingtonLifeScience.com, announces release of a report highlighting the challenges of Washington State’s…
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UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample
On Apr. 6, 2026, scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) announce they have developed a…
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Biotechnology | Disease | Neurology | Oncology | Pharmaceutical | Quantum
Merck to Acquire Terns Pharmaceuticals for $5.7 Billion, Expanding Its Hematology Pipeline With TERN-701, a Novel Candidate for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
On Mar. 25, 2026, Merck, and Terns Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology company, announced that the companies have entered…
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Novartis to acquire a pan-mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor, strengthening its breast cancer pipeline for $3 Billion
On Mar. 20, 2026, Novartis announced an agreement with Synnovation Therapeutics, to acquire SNV4818, a pan-mutant‑selective PI3Kα inhibitor,…
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National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’
On Mar. 19, 2026, a nationwide STAT survey of federally funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald…
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ImmunityBio Achieves Milestone with Large-Scale NK Cell Production and Cryopreservation from Over 60 Healthy and Cancer Donors
On Mar. 13, 2026, ImmunityBio announced the successful completion of manufacturing engineering programs, NK2022 and NK2023, establishing a…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Medical Device | Medicine | Neurology | Non-Profit Research | Oncology | Pharmaceutical | Radiology | Therapeutics
Mass General Brigham Receives Transformative $50 Million Gift to Shape Future of Cancer Research
On Mar. 12, 2026, Mass General Brigham (MGB) announced it has received a $50 million gift that will…
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New microscope reveals living cells in unprecedented detail
On Mar. 2, 2026, Stanford scientists announced that a one-of-a-kind instrument can show cell structures interacting in real…
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Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells to advance medicine
On Feb. 26, 2026, Novartis announced it has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that…
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Novartis settles 18-month-old lawsuit from estate of Baltimore woman whose cells were extracted 75 years ago
On Feb. 24, 2026, The family of a Baltimore woman whose cells were extracted for medical research without…
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Gilead to acquire cancer therapy developer Arcellx for up to $7.8 billion
On Feb. 23, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced it will buy cancer therapy partner Arcellx for an implied equity…
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Scientists develop first-of-its-kind antibody to block Epstein Barr virus
On Feb. 17, 2026, Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists announced reaching a crucial milestone in blocking Epstein Barr…
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Biotechnology | Imaging | NIH | Oncology
Top Computational Biologist Bao Zhirong Returns to Chinese Universities After 30 Years in U.S.
On Feb. 13, 2026, after three decades in the US—from PhD student to full professor—Dr. Bao Zhirong announced…
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EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change
On Feb. 12 2026, the Trump administration revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis…
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Novartis breaks ground on new global Biomedical Research center in San Diego to accelerate drug discovery
On Feb. 6, 2026, Novartis broke ground on a new, state-of-the-art global Biomedical Research center in San Diego,…
