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Epilepsy Van to Serve Underprivileged Communities
06 March 2026

Epilepsy Van to Serve Underprivileged Communities

Aster Whitefield Hospital and Rotary Bangalore IT Corridor have launched Karnataka’s first Mobile Epilepsy Van to expand rural access to screening, diagnosis and treatment. The main aim was to improve access to epilepsy screening and treatment in rural and underserved communities. Since it wa...

Link Pharma Chem receives a GST demand order from the Central GST authorities
05 March 2026

Link Pharma Chem receives a GST demand order from the Central GST authorities

Link Pharma Chem Ltd received a demand order from the Assistant Commissioner of Vadodara, raising demand for GST, together with interest as applicable and penalty. The authority has started acting against the violations related to tax declaration mismatches and excess Input Tax Credit claims. Discr...

Arcellx is prohibited to break large deal in a biopharma company
05 March 2026

Arcellx is prohibited to break large deal in a biopharma company

Gilead Sciences acquired a partnership with Arcellx in its largest deal since 2020, and it looks to strengthen its line-up of cancer treatments. The company has been looking for growth beyond its core areas as it faces declining sales of its COVID-19 drug Veklury and prepares for future patent losse...

AI-based Platform and drug developer's $400 million IPO
05 March 2026

AI-based Platform and drug developer's $400 million IPO

An artificial intelligence-based platform helps drug developers focus on creating treatments for immunology and inflammation, as well as oncology, through the largest biotech initial public offering (IPO) to date, raising $400 million in gross proceeds for clinical trials, as well as platform and pi...

Sujvika strengthens Biotech with AI insight
04 March 2026

Sujvika strengthens Biotech with AI insight

On the 40th foundation day of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched the “SUJVIKA” portal to provide authenticated data on biotechnology product import. This platform also aims to promote biomanufacturing and evidence-based policymaking through a pu...

Novo Targets Oral Obesity Boost with Vivtex
04 March 2026

Novo Targets Oral Obesity Boost with Vivtex

Novo Nordisk announced a collaboration with a start-up, Vivtex, which gives access to technologies that could yield new oral biologics for obesity and other medical diseases. It has partnered with Vivtex, a biotech firm co-founded by MIT professor Robert Langer, to develop oral therapies for obesity...

Strategic Pact Advances PSMA-Targeting VIR-5500
04 March 2026

Strategic Pact Advances PSMA-Targeting VIR-5500

The global strategic collaboration between Astellas Pharma Inc., a global life sciences company, and Vir Biotechnology, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, was announced to advance VIR-5500, an investigational PRO-XTEN dual-masked CD3 T-cell engager (TCE) targeting PSMA for the treatme...

Kolkata Scientists Create Mini-Brains for Disease Research
04 March 2026

Kolkata Scientists Create Mini-Brains for Disease Research

Team of the city of India, from the department of Neurologists and Researchers, created a mini brain out of real human tissues and blood vessels to study the trigger for a neurological ailment in Kolkata’s (Marwari Community). Researchers mentioned Spinocerebellar Ataxia type-12, a disease th...

Praxis Nears First Neurology Launch with Dual NDAs
04 March 2026

Praxis Nears First Neurology Launch with Dual NDAs

Praxis Precision Medicine has submitted two New Drug Applications (NDAs) to the FDA for its lead neurological candidates—ulixacaltamide for essential tremor and relutrigine for marking a major pivot toward commercialisation in 2026. The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to ulix...

Valinor and Renew Unite to strengthen Neuro Research
04 March 2026

Valinor and Renew Unite to strengthen Neuro Research

Partnership integration of high-resolution multi-omics data generation with predictive multimodal machine learning to support biopharma decision-making in neurology, which avoids treatment delay. Strategic collaboration between Valinor Discovery and Renew Biotechnologies aimed to generate the large...