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      <title>Stonegate Updates Coverage on Burcon Nutrascience Corporation (BU) 4Q26</title>
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      <title>Sky-high Parabilis, Kailera IPOs spur optimism—but only for derisked biotechs</title>
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      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <description>Biotechs are benefitting from the AI tech frenzy and inflation, but validated pipelines and careful planning are still key to the recent record-setting IPOs, experts say.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:44:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Facing pressure from China, BioSpace’s NextGen biotech leaders say: ‘Bring it on’</title>
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      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <description>From Chinese innovation to AI, biotech CEOs are being hit with challenges at a breakneck pace. Three leaders from BioSpace’s NextGen Class of 2026 told us about the issues keeping them up at night.</description>
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      <title>Apogee investors riled by $1.3B royalty deal, as eczema drug matches Lilly’s Ebglyss</title>
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      <description>Apogee’s pipeline in a product drug zumilokibart achieved significant disease clearance in a mid-stage atopic dermatitis trial, but investors were miffed by a royalty financing deal with Blackstone.</description>
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      <title>Kardigan Blood Pressure Drug Proves Hypothesis Despite Split Phase 2 Readout</title>
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      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <description>While tonlamarsen missed one of two co-primary endpoints, Kardigan says the drug has shown a clinically meaningful effect on blood pressure, supporting advancement into Phase 2b.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prasad Out at FDA, Lawmaker Takes Action on Rare Disease Rejections, and a Spate of Obesity Data</title>
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      <dc:creator>Heather McKenzie</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Jef Akst</dc:creator>
      <description>Rare disease biotech stocks pop on the news that Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s chief biologics regulator, will depart the FDA at the end of April; Sen. Ron Johnson launches an investigation into recent rare disease drug rejections; and Roche and Zealand’s amylin analog fails to match investor expectations—and Eli Lilly’s rival candidate—in a mid-stage trial.</description>
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      <title>Rising Amid Flurry of CAR T Deals, Stylus Proves Cell Therapy Is Not Dead</title>
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      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <description>Stylus Medicine, a member of BioSpace’s NextGen Class of 2026, launched in May 2025 to develop new, less complex genetic medicines. The company’s in vivo approach has attracted “intense” interest from Big Pharma.</description>
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      <title>Corsera Eyes Two-Pronged Approach To Tackle Leading Cardiovascular Killer</title>
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      <dc:creator>Annalee Armstrong</dc:creator>
      <description>Corsera Health’s Chief Operating Officer Rena Denoncourt and CFO Meredith Kaya speak with BioSpace about the biotech’s mission and vision for the next generation of cardiovascular care.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:21:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Programmable RNA 2.0: Beyond the First mRNA Revolution</title>
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      <dc:creator>Jennifer C. Smith-Parker</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>BioSpace Insights</dc:creator>
      <description>In this episode of Denatured, Jennifer C. Smith-Parker speaks to Erik Digman Wiklund, CEO of Circio and Jacob Becraft, Co-founder and CEO of Strand Therapeutics. They discuss how post-COVID, emerging platforms like circular and logic circuit RNA are expanding the field's therapeutic horizons.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:03:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Summit’s Potential Keytruda Rival Gets November FDA Decision Date</title>
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      <dc:creator>Tristan Manalac</dc:creator>
      <description>The FDA is currently reviewing Summit's PD-1/VEGF bispecific as part of a chemotherapy combo for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:54:02 GMT</pubDate>
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