Clinical trial diversity, FDA hiring authority, and inactive ingredient disclosure provisions all get slight modifications. The bill glides through committee, but not without some complaints about agency performance.

Public Company Edition: Applied Molecular Transport, Scholar Rock, Agios and others join many of their peers in revising their strategies and downsizing their teams. Also, Zentalis grossed $200m from a follow-on offering and OKYO Pharma went public in the year’s smallest biopharma IPO in the US. 

Medtech Insight spoke with XACT Robotics’ executive chairman Harel Gadot about plans for the FDA-cleared ACE robotic system and its market opportunities.

The company’s emphasis on artificial intelligence has played a leading role in development of lipid nanoparticles enabling delivery of mRNA to lung tissue under a partnership with Vertex.