Therapeutic Thursday: The Field That Keeps Falling Off the Wagon
Obesity just went from the 30th most-studied disease to the 2nd in three years, and almost the entire bet is riding on a single class of drugs.
Obesity just went from the 30th most-studied disease to the 2nd in three years, and almost the entire bet is riding on a single class of drugs.
Two of pharma's most crowded fields, and no agreement on whether the answer is to crowd in further or step away.
Two qualify as first-in-class among 2032's ten biggest oncology bets. So why is big pharma paying nine figures for assets that haven't read out?
Cell and gene therapy has its first commercial products, its first profitable company, and its first wave of strategic exits. The exits are as informative as the deals.
The clinical logic is sound, the deal volume is real, and the differentiation question is getting harder to ignore.