Pioneering Medicines, Flagship’s in house drug discovery and development unit, is responsible for leading the partnership with Pfizer, including driving the exploration process to rapidly surface potential drug development programs built on Flagship’s diverse bioplatforms and modalities.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an investigation by 42 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. into its marketing of baby powder and other talc-based products blamed for allegedly causing cancer.

Merck

Merck is eyeing market opportunities with additional potential benefits of weight-loss treatments through drug combinations with “good tolerability and good combinability”.

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Lawyers for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and company President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to overturn their convictions for defrauding investors in the failed blood testing startup, which was once valued at $9 billion.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which is investigating the drugs’ costs, said in a statement that at its June 18 meeting it will weigh a subpoena requiring Novo Nordisk Inc President Doug Langa to testify at a July 10 hearing.

Ashley Haden, EVERSANA INTOUCH

The most popular social media platform at the moment is TikTok, but as the current administration cracks down on monopolies, anticompetitive practices, as well as media companies under foreign ownership, the future of TikTok hangs in the balance.