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1. Demis Hassabis says he's 'leaning into' Isomorphic role amid Alphabet and DeepMind shakeup
2. In a first, WuXi AppTec tops Lonza’s six-month revenue despite increased Pentagon scrutiny
3. Atossa Therapeutics founder to be selected as NIAID director — report
4. Merger talks between AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers are off — report
5. Novo Nordisk eyes bolt-on deals as pipeline disappointments pile up
6. Lilly beats forecasts again as tirzepatide makes up nearly two-thirds of revenue
7. Expedition gets another $115M for its twist on China NewCo model
8. Fujifilm’s Lars Petersen exits, hands leadership baton to COO Maja Pedersen
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down to become Alphabet's science chief. But as Andrew Dunn reports, Hassabis will lean into his role at Isomorphic Labs to help reshape drug R&D with AI.

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Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Demis Hassabis, outgoing CEO of Google DeepMind (Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Andrew Dunn

Al­pha­bet is shak­ing up its AI lead­er­ship, with Demis Has­s­abis step­ping down as CEO of Google Deep­Mind and be­com­ing Al­pha­bet's chief sci­en­tist. Long­time Google chief...

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by Anna Brown

WuXi AppTec, the Chi­nese con­tract man­u­fac­tur­er un­der scruti­ny from the Pen­ta­gon, is­n't slow­ing down. For the first time, the com­pa­ny ap­pears to have gen­er­at­ed more...

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Steven Quay, Atossa Therapeutics CEO
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by Zachary Brennan

Steven Quay, the founder and CEO of clin­i­cal-stage biotech Atossa Ther­a­peu­tics, is like­ly to be the next di­rec­tor of NI­H's Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Al­ler­gy and In­fec­tious...

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by Max Gelman

So much for that.

As­traZeneca and Bris­tol My­ers Squibb are no longer in dis­cus­sions on a merg­er and will not strike a deal, Reuters re­port­ed...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

“If you don't like set­backs and you don't like fail­ure, don't get in­to the phar­ma in­dus­try,” No­vo Nordisk CEO Maziar Mike Doust­dar said on a...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Eli Lil­ly post­ed $23 bil­lion in sec­ond-quar­ter rev­enues, com­ing in about $3 bil­lion above an­a­lyst­s' es­ti­mates.

Lil­ly al­so once again raised its full-year rev­enue guid­ance...

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Yi Larson, Expedition Therapeutics CEO