Pune – September 25, 2026 -- The global clinical trials market reached USD 58.19 billion in 2025 and is forecast to grow at a 6.13% compound annual rate through 2034, reaching USD 99.4 billion, according to Maximize Market Research.

Mississauga, ON – September 25, 2026 -- Kye Pharmaceuticals ranked No. 105 on Report on Business magazine's 2026 list of Canada's Top Growing Companies, posting three-year revenue growth of 264%.

Cambridge, Mass. – September 25, 2026 -- NeuroSense Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NRSN) cut operating expenses to $3.4 million in the first half of 2026, down from $4.7 million a year earlier, as the biotech pushes its ALS candidate PrimeC toward a Canadian regulatory filing targeted for December 2026.

Shanghai – September 25, 2026 -- IASO Biotechnology reported an 88.9% objective response rate for its dual-targeted CAR-T therapy RD140 in a first-in-human Phase 1 trial of nine heavily pretreated multiple myeloma and plasma cell leukemia patients, with the response rate reaching 100% in the higher-dose cohort.

Shanghai – September 25, 2026 -- A retrospective analysis of 102 multiple myeloma patients treated with IASO Bio's FUCASO CAR-T therapy found that patients maintaining sustained minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity showed a median CAR-T cell persistence of 463 days, compared with 272 days in patients who experienced MRD conversion — a gap of roughly 191 days. The data, drawn from the pivotal FUMANBA-1 registration study, were presented as a poster (Abstract No. PA-469) at the 2026 International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting.

San Mateo, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- Kali Therapeutics has been named one of the 11 most promising private biotechnology companies in the 2026 Endpoints 11, a list curated annually by Endpoints News editors from hundreds of private candidates.

Emeryville, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- Slingshot Biosciences has appointed Dr. Nimisha Srivastava as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 23, 2026, elevating the company's former Chief Operating Officer to its top leadership post.

Jeollanam-do – September 25, 2026 -- Researchers at Chonnam National University have demonstrated that dichloromethane, a widely used industrial solvent, can directly drive amide bond formation between carboxylic acids and amines, offering manufacturers a cheaper and less hazardous alternative to conventional coupling reagents. The findings, led by Professor Sunwoo Lee of the Department of Chemistry, were published online on July 6, 2026, and appeared in Volume 148, Issue 27 of the Journal of the American Chemical Society on July 15, 2026.

Cambridge, Mass. – September 25, 2026 -- Zifo has been named runner-up in the 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge for TLFGenix, its AI-driven pipeline for generating clinical trial tables, figures, and listings, marking the company's second consecutive year of recognition in the competition.

Uppsala – September 25, 2026 -- Nanexa AB has signed a global exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Novo Nordisk worth up to EUR 1.165 billion, granting the Danish pharmaceutical giant rights to the Swedish company's PharmaShell atomic layer deposition (ALD) drug delivery platform for peptide-based treatments in obesity, type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases.