Mandy Jackson
Managing Editor, US Commercial News
Mandy reports on daily biopharma developments, writes feature stories and produces Scrip's Finance Watch column. She covers finance, start-ups, dealmaking, clinical trial results, quarterly earnings reports, commercial competition and corporate strategy.
Mandy regularly interviews everyone from big pharma CEOs to biotech start-up founders, enhancing her expertise on industry trends and market dynamics. She also is interested in drug pricing and novel reimbursement strategies, new treatments in areas of true unmet need, diversity in the biopharma industry and novel approaches to drug development. She has been a business reporter since 2000, covering biopharma, biotech law and commercial real estate.
Latest From Mandy Jackson
Zenas Raises $200m For Bifunctional Antibody In Autoimmune Diseases
Zenas BioPharma plans to have data from four trials – two under way and two starting this summer – for obexelimab, which targets CD19 and FcγRIIb, within about a year and a half.
Gossamer Partners With Chiesi To Accelerate Seralutinib Development
Already in Phase III for PAH, Gossamer said it can take seralutinib into Phase III for PH-ILD at least four years earlier than planned under its alliance with respiratory disease expert Chiesi.
Finance Watch: Venture Rounds Trend Toward The High End
Private Company Edition: First quarter data again confirm fewer but larger VC rounds in Q1. Big Q2 rounds include a $132.5m series C round for Endeavor Biomedicines, a $103m series A round for Reunion Neuroscience and Enlaza’s $100m series A.
Amgen Planning Pivotal Obesity Program For MariTide
Executives said during Amgen’s Q1 call that the company is “encouraged” by interim Phase II data for MariTide (AMG 133) in obesity, so it is designing Phase III trials and building manufacturing capacity.
Finance Watch: Earnings Season Brings Job Cuts, Even At Big Pharma
Restructuring Edition: Even big pharma companies are not immune from workforce reductions. BMS and Sanofi joined that ranks of Evotec, CureVac and BenevolentAI in cutting jobs. Also, Vaxxinity will de-list and Hepion winds down its NASH trial, among other strategic updates.
Newron’s Add-On Treatment Shows Promise In Newly Popular Schizophrenia Field
Newron’s evenamide worked in a Phase II/III trial as an add-on to antipsychotic drugs in patients with inadequate response to monotherapy at a time when schizophrenia has piqued the interest of big pharma.