US President Donald Trump announced this week plans to impose heavy tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry “soon”, aiming to bring drug manufacturing back to American soil. He called it a “tremendous problem” that the US is no longer able to produce sufficient antibiotics for its own population. Ozempic, a weight loss drug, is the same…
President Donald Trump on Friday said he was open to negotiating separate agreements with countries seeking to avoid US tariffs. However, he said that such deals would only be considered after his administration enforces reciprocal tariffs on April 2. US President Donald Trump waves as he walks before departing for Florida from the South Lawn…
XtalPi Holdings, an artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery firm based in the Greater Bay Area, is changing the biopharmaceutical industry by leveraging AI and robotics to transform traditional approaches to drug development. The company’s self-developed large language model (LLM), the technology underpinning ChatGPT-like generative AI services, has helped increase the success rate of chemical experiments…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s has the pharmaceutical industry running scared now that he looks poised to play a senior role in the next Trump administration. Adapting his possible future boss’ signature slogan as his own, RFK Jr. has promised to Make America Healthy Again, but one senior executive from the healthcare sector told the Financial Times his influence…
Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and board member at The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), predicts it will take a few decades to see impactful gerotherapeutics—drugs that counter the aging process—for the average person. The key is discovering safe and effective…