This week's clinical trial results for 26 June 2026 deliver a landmark psychiatric result, a major oncology setback, and a decisive blow to one of the most watched platforms in regenerative medicine. Definium Therapeutics' DT120 becomes the first lysergide therapy to...
Finding AF Before It Strikes: The Case for National Screening
There’s a concerning number of Australians living with a dangerous heart rhythm disorder - and many of them have no idea. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a condition most people have never heard of and that’s a big problem, because it is already a silent cause of stroke. ...
Late-Stage Obesity Drugs: 7 to Watch Beyond Ozempic
The weight-loss revolution that began with Ozempic and Wegovy is entering a more crowded and competitive phase, and the field of late-stage obesity drugs has become the most closely watched area in pharmaceutical research. Two recent milestones show how fast the...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 19 June 2026
The Menarini Group and Karyopharm Therapeutics report that selinexor plus ruxolitinib improves spleen response over standard monotherapy in the Phase 3 SENTRY trial in myelofibrosis, Agios Pharmaceuticals reinforces the anti-hemolytic profile of mitapivat with new...
Complement Inhibitor Setback: Sanofi Halts CIDP Study
Sanofi has halted a late-stage trial of its experimental complement inhibitor riliprubart in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), a setback that analysts say could create volatility across the wider complement inhibitor field. The company said in...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 12 June 2026
Survodutide delivers dual Phase 3 success in obesity and metabolic liver disease at ADA 2026, secukinumab becomes the first targeted biologic to demonstrate sustained remission in polymyalgia rheumatica, dapirolizumab pegol meets its Phase 3 primary endpoint in...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 12 June 2026
Survodutide delivers dual Phase 3 success in obesity and metabolic liver disease at ADA 2026, secukinumab becomes the first targeted biologic to demonstrate sustained remission in polymyalgia rheumatica, dapirolizumab pegol meets its Phase 3 primary endpoint in...
The Case for Agility: Why Biopharma Must Embrace Adaptive Trial Designs
For decades, the landscape of clinical research was dominated by fixed, traditional trial designs. In these legacy studies, the primary objective was often maintaining a strict, unchanging protocol from inception to conclusion. But the landscape of modern medicine has...
FDA Drug Approval Decisions: June and July 2026
The summer months at the United States Food and Drug Administration are typically among the busiest on the regulatory calendar, and 2026 is proving no exception. With a succession of high-profile FDA drug approval decisions concentrated in June and July 2026, the...
Daraxonrasib Doubles Survival in Pancreatic Cancer at ASCO
When Brian Wolpin, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Hale Family Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, advanced to the next slide during the plenary session at the 2026 ASCO (American Society of...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 05 June 2026
Akeso and Summit Therapeutics’ ivonescimab plus chemotherapy delivers a statistically significant overall survival benefit over a PD-1 inhibitor plus chemotherapy control in the Phase 3 HARMONi-6 trial for previously untreated advanced squamous non-small cell lung...
ASCO 2026: The Five Results That Will Change Cancer Treatment
The 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held from 29 May to 2 June in Chicago, drew more than 44,000 oncology professionals and delivered what many clinicians described as some of the most consequential trial data seen at the conference...
Parkinson’s Research Field is Approaching a Pivotal Moment
Landmark clinical trial results expected in 2026 as disease-modifying Parkinson’s pipeline reaches critical phase Medical research charity Cure Parkinson’s says the Parkinson’s research field is approaching a pivotal moment, as a wave of results from clinical trials...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 29 May 2026
Apogee Therapeutics’ zumilokibart meets its primary and all secondary endpoints with high statistical significance in the Phase 2 APEX Part B trial for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, TG Therapeutics’ BRIUMVI receives positive Phase 3 ENHANCE data supporting a...
AI Will Not Solve Healthcare Inequality. But it Could Lower the Barriers
There’s a lot of discussion right now around AI in healthcare, but most of it feels disconnected from how clinical research actually works day-to-day. A lot of the conversation is centered around automation, replacing people, chatbots, and efficiency. Some of that...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 22 May 2026
Merck's sacituzumab tirumotecan meets both primary endpoints in the pivotal Phase 3 TroFuse-005 trial for advanced endometrial cancer, Relay Therapeutics reports the first clinical evidence of PI3Kα mutant-selective inhibition in PIK3CA-driven vascular anomalies in...
Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI
Each year on May 20, International Clinical Trials Day recognizes James Lind’s 1747 scurvy trial and the patients, clinicians, coordinators, sponsors and researchers who make clinical progress possible. It is also a moment to look honestly at where clinical research...
What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer
The FDA's approval of Veppanu (vepdegestrant) marks the first regulatory clearance for a PROTAC in any disease area, and opens a new chapter in the treatment of ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer. On 1 May 2026, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved...







