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Merck inks up to $2.13 B oncology deal with China's SciBrunch

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and China-based startup SciBrunch Therapeutics ha

06 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News
China's Hengrui Pharma inks $2.6 B deal with Novo Nordisk for Once-Weekly oral GLP-1/GIP dual receptor agonist HRS-1596

China-based Hengrui Pharma has entered into a license agreement with Novo Nordisk for HRS-1596, a phase I-read

03 October, 2026 | Saturday | News
Chugai and InxMed enter into worldwide license agreement for RAF-MEK Molecular Glue

Japan’s Chugai Pharmaceutical and InxMed (Hong Kong) have entered into a worldwide license agreement reg

30 September, 2026 | Wednesday | News

BioTech News

Singapore injects S$50 M into National Centre for Engineering Biology

The National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB), hosted at the National University of Singapore (NUS),

06 October, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development provides ¥2.8 B grant to United Immunity

United Immunity, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has raised a total of ¥2.2 billion in private fin

28 September, 2026 | Monday | News
Melbourne joins global consortium to advance drug discovery

The University of Melbourne has joined the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) with the establishment of SGC-

24 September, 2026 | Thursday | News

MedTech News

HKSH Medical Group and United Imaging announce launch of Hong Kong's first Long-Axial PET/CT

HKSH Medical Group (HKSH) and United Imaging Healthcare (United Imaging) have announced the arrival of Hong Ko

24 September, 2026 | Thursday | News
Korean medtech firm AIMD expands world's first AI-guided video laryngoscope to global markets

AIMD Inc., a Korean medical technology company specialising in AI-powered emergency care, has announced the gl

23 September, 2026 | Wednesday | News

BioServices News

Korea's LOTTE Biologics inks US-based manufacturing agreement with Alvotech to increase global supply

South Korea-based LOTTE Biologics, a contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) organisation, and Alvotech,

09 October, 2026 | Friday | News
Ontario contributes $1.7 M investment to advance life sciences innovation at Piramal Pharma's Aurora facility

Piramal Pharma Solutions (PPS), India-based Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) and par

30 September, 2026 | Wednesday | News

Inside Magazine

Neurology’s Disease-Modifying Moment

Neurology is moving from a history of high-risk failures to a period of unprecedented therapeutic experimentation. For decades, the complexity of the brain, limited understanding of disease biology and the formidable blood-brain barrier (BBB) made central nervous system (CNS) drug development one of pharma’s toughest challenges. That equation is now beginning to shift.

Advances in neurobiology, neuroimmunology, precision medicine and drug-delivery technologies are opening new routes to diseases once considered largely untreatable. Recent approvals have introduced disease-modifying and genetically targeted therapies, while the Phase III pipeline is testing approaches aimed at Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Dravet syndrome and other neurological disorders.

Behind this momentum is a deeper change: developers are moving beyond managing symptoms towards targeting the biological mechanisms that drive disease. The question now is whether this scientific momentum can finally translate into durable clinical benefit—and make disease modification a repeatable reality in neurology.

 

 

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