
The Top Line
Biopharma and medtech explained. Every week, journalists from Fierce Biotech, Fierce Medtech and Fierce Pharma recount the latest industry trends and why they matter. We’ll analyze the week’s biggest business news—from mergers and marketing to drug R&D and device development. Available every Friday morning.
GSK's double FDA win, Roche's $15B deal and the rise of point-of-care marketing
In this week's episode of "The Top Line," we're covering a pair of FDA approvals for GSK, an antibody-drug conjugate pact worth up to $15 billion and the growing role of point-of-care advertising in pharmaceutical marketing. First, we look at GSK's big week, which included FDA approval for Jemperl…
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Inside Teva's Weltruza launch and Novo's GLP-1 strategy
In this week's episode of "The Top Line," we're looking at two companies building on recent successes and pursuing new opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry. From Teva's growing portfolio of innovative medicines to Novo's expanding reach in the GLP-1 market, both companies are looking to bui…
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The Next Chapter for AI in Clinical Trials [Sponsored]
Clinical AI is moving from systems that predict and summarize toward agents that can help execute parts of a workflow. In this sponsored episode of The Top Line, Will Hurth speaks with Saama’s Ari Srinivasan, chief customer success and growth officer, and Yatesh Midha, associate vice president of p…
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How AI could improve clinical trial decision-making (Sponsored)
What if clinical development teams could evaluate potential trial outcomes before a study reaches patients? In this sponsored episode of The Top Line, host Irena Luo speaks with Raja Shankar, vice president for machine learning within AI and technology solutions at IQVIA, about a foundation model d…
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How we picked the Fierce 15
What does it mean to be a Fierce 15 biotech in 2026? With this year’s list unveiled, the Fierce Biotech team gets together to discuss what the winners tell us about the state of the sector. In this week’s episode of "The Top Line," the Fierce Biotech editorial team reflects on the process of disti…
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Locking in on pharma’s consumerization trend
With GLP-1s paving the way, a consumer shift is happening across markets for certain branded pharmaceuticals. Now, the CEO of a buzzy pattern-hair-loss biotech is eyeing opportunities in an evolving market that could expand well beyond his own company. In this week’s episode of "The Top Line," Fie…
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Fierce Pharma Week: A look at the biggest trends, campaigns and conversations
Fierce Pharma Week brought thousands of people to Philadelphia for four days of conversations about pharma marketing, commercialization, medical affairs and communications. In this episode of "The Top Line," Fierce editors share the conversations, trends and moments that stood out from the event. …
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Inside the growing world of biopharma prediction markets
Prediction markets are opening up new ways to bet on biopharma events, from clinical trial readouts to FDA approvals. But they also create a new set of risks for an industry where employees, researchers, contractors and others may have access to confidential information that could give them an edge…
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Clinical trials reach a new automation inflection point (Sponsored)
Clinical development organizations are facing mounting pressure to do more with increasingly complex protocols, larger data sets and tighter timelines. While automation has improved individual processes, many of the industry's most persistent delays continue to occur between tasks, systems and team…
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The future of RAS inhibitors
Revolution Medicines recently made history with the approval of its RAS inhibitor Rasonque for advanced pancreatic cancer. But behind RevMed is an entire field of biotechs working to broaden the reach of RAS-targeting drugs. In this week’s episode of “The Top Line,” Fierce Biotech’s Darren Incorva…
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