The global market for robotic surgery systems is expected to reach $9.7bn by 2023. With medtech giants Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and Zimmer Biomet launching robotic platforms in 2020, this market is set for a major shakeup.

Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb's market-dominating checkpoint inhibitors are competing to find the next combination therapy to treat more cancer patients, in more types of cancers. Recent failures and new regulatory pressure, however, may have a cooling effect, even as researchers come full circle with PD-l/PD-L1 and CTL-4 combinations. The race is also on to pull new combinations from emerging cell therapy and precision oncology drug candidates.

The biopharma sector is often accused of a being a slow-moving engine, but a look back over the last 20 years reveals that a lot has changed. In Vivo explores the history of high-impact M&A transactions in the industry between 1999 and 2019. 

Redbiotec has reached a new inflection point as it progresses two key programs in herpes and cancer. The company’s CEO and CSO explain how it hopes to use bacteria as a delivery system for genes or proteins to treat cancer.

Oncology and rare diseases dominate the industry pipeline, fuelled by science, regulatory tailwinds and high prices. But as the world grapples with coronavirus, and with heart disease still the top killer, can our systems fund treatments for more prevalent conditions?

In Vivo has identified the pipeline of next-generation tumor-agnostic drugs and created a guide to the ideal trial strategies for these potentially transformative candidates.

An interactive look at recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostics industries.

Founding CEO of the UK’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Keith Thompson, will retire from the company this year. He looks back on the last eight years of progress for CGT Catapult and the  advanced therapies sector – and provides words of wisdom for the challenges still to come.

In case you missed it: catch up with snippets from interviews with industry leaders recently published by In Vivo.

Sweden and the UK are conducting differing ‘develop and test’ programs to assess so-called ‘pull’ incentives in which an antibiotics innovator will be paid an annual fee in return for an access guarantee for anti-infectives. The projects have drawn keen attention from other countries. 

Innovation is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as “(the use of) a new idea or method.” The term is bandied about a great deal in the life sciences industry. Is it actually helpful to use the term so widely, or does the sector risk overlooking true innovation? This can be applied not only to the drugs coming to market, but how they are paid for as well.

Incentives matter; they motivate us to do things. There is renewed interest in just what motivates the life sciences industry to make the choices it does when determining the diseases it will focus on, and how much effort it puts in. This stems from concern about too much effort going into some areas, and too little in others.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Dealmaking column is a survey of recent health care transactions listed by relevant industry segment – In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals – and then categorized by type – Acquisition, Alliance, or Financing. This month’s column covers deals announced February 2020.

As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, companies across the world are preparing to roll out commercial test kits for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.

Some believe unmet need refers only to rare diseases and tiny patient populations. But it is more than this. In 2020, the term sits at the heart of decision-making for drug makers – along with cost, access and value, of course.