Name: Scrip M&A Podcast: Looking at M&A activity as Q1 2025 nears a close. by Citeline
Duration: 22 min 42 s
Description: Scrip senior writer Joseph Haas discusses the latest biopharmaceutical merger-and-acquisition activity and trends with attorneys Jessica Bisignano and Gabrielle Witt of Hogan Lovells.

Scrip senior writer Joseph Haas discusses the latest biopharmaceutical merger-and-acquisition activity and trends with attorneys Jessica Bisignano and Gabrielle Witt of Hogan Lovells.

Scrip M&A Podcast: Looking at M&A activity as Q1 2025 nears a close.

Biotech funding is tougher than ever, but some companies still win big. Join Claire Riches, VP, Clinical Solutions, Citeline and Alistair McDonald, CEO of Worldwide Clinical Trials as they reveal insider strategies for securing investors, navigating partnerships, and turning innovative science into real-world success.

View the video series and find out more information here: https://www.citeline.com/biotech

Winning Biotech Investors Through Strategic Partnerships and Trial Innovation

Hear experts Matthieu Culié and Alessandro Agosti as they discuss how Olon stands out in a competitive landscape through its fully integrated end-to-end ADC manufacturing expertise, global operations, impurity control and strategic facilities.

How Olon’s fully integrated, end-to-end ADC capabilities drive quality and scale

As the potential of in vivo CAR-T therapy moves closer to clinical reality, biotech innovators are reimagining what’s possible in autoimmune disease. With groundbreaking scientific advances and evolving regulatory perspectives, this next generation of cell therapy could redefine how immune-mediated conditions are treated.
 
In this episode, Pete Robinson, Therapeutic Strategy Director, Novotech, joins Meredith Landry, Managing Editor, Custom Content, Citeline, to discuss how in vivo CAR-T is opening new possibilities for autoimmune therapies—and what it will take to translate early promise into patient impact.
They explore:
•	The breakthrough potential of in vivo CAR-T—and what could make it a true game-changer for autoimmune disorders
•	Key developments and considerations to realize clinical success
•	Global landscape for early phase clinical trials

Innovating Autoimmune Treatment with In Vivo CAR-T

Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Writer Sarah Karlin-Smith, Senior Editor Sue Sutter and Editor-in-Chief Nielsen Hobbs explain the reasons for the US Food and Drug Administration’s planned “Simple Reform” of its inspection group, including the move away from specialized teams (:44). They also consider industry’s current thinking on best practices for navigating the agency’s new position on direct-to-consumer ad regulation (18:45).

More On These Topics From The Pink Sheet

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Industry Rethinking Visual Elements And Quality-Of-Life Claims After US FDA Drug Ad Crackdown: https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/compliance/marketing-and-advertising/industry-rethinking-visual-elements-and-quality-of-life-claims-after-us-fda-drug-ad-crackdown-WMXPANFVC5B55GZZQ6IWJG4FRE/ 

US FDA Ad/Promo Crackdown Letters Came From OPDP Staff, Not Artificial Intelligence: https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/compliance/marketing-and-advertising/us-fda-adpromo-crackdown-letters-came-from-opdp-staff-not-artificial-intelligence-RKTSXQ5ZV5BPJD4DXGAOS5SS5Q/ 

Drug Fix: Another FDA Inspection Reorg, Industry Navigating New DTC Landscape

Audio roundup of selected biopharma industry content from Scrip over the business week ended October 24, 2025. In this episode we focus on the most significant results presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting in Berlin: Enhertu in early-stage breast cancer; Padcev/Keytruda in bladder cancer; Phase III wins for Pluvicto; Trodelvy and Datroway in breast cancer tussle; and Merck & Co. raises hopes in breast cancer. .
Story links: https://insights.citeline.com/scrip/podcasts/scrips-five-must-know-things/quick-listen-scrips-five-must-know-things-EWX3A6U4TBE5NPDYXHIJSWDO3A/

This episode was produced with the help of AI text-to-voice and voice emulation tools.

Playlist: soundcloud.com/citelinesounds/sets/scrips-five-must-know-things

Scrip's Five Must-Know Things - Oct. 27, 2025

本期播客内容来自《Scrip》杂志，精选内容涵盖截至2025年10月24日当周的生物制药行业的商业动态。本期节目采用人工智能文本转语音及语音仿真技术制作。
本期聚焦柏林欧洲医学肿瘤学会会议的新成果：Enhertu在早期乳腺癌中的应用；Padcev/Keytruda在膀胱癌领域的突破；Pluvicto的III期试验成功；Trodelvy与Datroway在乳腺癌治疗领域的较量；默克公司为乳腺癌治疗带来新希望。
Story links: https://insights.citeline.com/scrip/podcasts/scrips-five-must-know-things/quick-listen-scrips-five-must-know-things-EWX3A6U4TBE5NPDYXHIJSWDO3A/

Playlist: on.soundcloud.com/gnr7PaOwflNKiAO7QX



Scrip 五件必知要闻: 药闻周析 - 全球制药风云聚焦 (Chinese-language podcast)

스톤브릿지벤쳐스의 김현기 상무는 Scrip과의 인터뷰에서 벤처캐피탈의 국내 바이오 투심 회복을 제약하는 요인과 투자 고려사항, 전략 등을 이야기했습니다.
 
https://insights.citeline.com/scrip/leadership/interviews/a-vc-perspective-on-korean-bioventures-new-catalysts-needed-to-jumpstart-activity-Z7IXGZWZVVGKFDPNOWNJJPMWLQ/

Playlist: soundcloud.com/citelinesounds/sets/korean-language-biopharma-mini

국내 바이오텍 펀딩 활성화를 위해 새로운 촉매제 필요 (Korean-language podcast)

Joseph Haas, senior writer, Scrip, speaks to guest panelists Robert Darwin, partner, Sidley law firm, and Arda Ural, Americas Life Sciences Leader, EY. 

Scrip M&A Podcast: What's Next For Dealmaking In The Obesity Space?

What if we could train AI to understand how stem cells become any cell type in the human body? In this episode of the In Vivo Podcast, host David Wild sits down with Micha Breakstone (CEO & Co-founder) and Samantha Dale Strasser (VP of Strategy) from Somite.AI to explore how their company is using foundation models to revolutionize cell therapy development.
 
Somite has pioneered a breakthrough approach that generates cell differentiation data at 1000x the efficiency of traditional methods using proprietary hydrogel capsule technology. By capturing millions of trajectories showing how cells respond to signals over time, they're building DeltaStem—a foundation model that could do for developmental biology what AlphaFold did for protein structure prediction.
 
Topics covered:
 
- How bringing cells to signals (rather than signals to cells) unlocks exponential scale
- Why wet lab innovation is just as critical as AI models
- Manufacturing optimization: improving purity, reducing variability, and cutting costs
- From beta cells for diabetes to brown fat for metabolic disease—the therapeutic pipeline
- Why even AI experts underestimate what's coming in the next decade
- Lessons from building biotech companies from academic concepts to commercial ventures
 
Whether you're in pharma, biotech, AI or just fascinated by the intersection of technology and human biology, this conversation offers a grounded look at how foundation models are moving from hype to real therapeutic impact.

Decoding Cell Differentiation: How AI Foundation Models Are Reshaping Regenerative Medicine

Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Editor Sue Sutter and Editor-in-Chief Nielsen Hobbs consider the impact of the US Food and Drug Administration announcement that a comparative efficacy study is  no longer a prerequisite for biosimilar approval (:35), as well as the upcoming guidance stating the interchangeability switching study requirement will be dropped (11:25). They also discuss agency efforts to clarify the intent of the upcoming inspection force “Simple Reform” (15:13).

More On These Topics From The Pink Sheet

US FDA’s Makary Wants Lower Biosimilar Launch Prices As Clinical Study Mandate Changed: https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/biosimilars-and-generics/biosimilars/us-fdas-makary-wants-lower-biosimilar-launch-prices-as-clinical-study-mandate-changed-5ARJRC6QYBBMTLTQ5S46F5YGXQ/ 

Biosimilar Interchangeability Guidance Eliminating Switching Studies Coming Soon: https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/biosimilars-and-generics/biosimilars/biosimilar-interchangeability-guidance-eliminating-switching-studies-coming-soon-ILNP4IGYJZGZLAJVDZ77URZDNQ/ 

‘Simple Reform’ Not A Step Back From Program Alignment, US FDA’s Elizabeth Miller Argues: https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/compliance/manufacturing/simple-reform-not-a-step-back-from-program-alignment-us-fdas-elizabeth-miller-argues-TCTFWMGBARD6VLRDT7YWUZBJQE/ 

Drug Fix: US FDA Streamlines Biosimilar Development Requirements, Clarifies Inspection Reform

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