Mandy Jackson
Managing Editor, US Commercial News
Mandy is Managing Editor, US Commercial News. Mandy reports on daily biopharma developments, writes feature stories and produces the 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
Finance Watch: The Job Cuts Keep Coming As Companies Try To Conserve Cash
Restructuring Updates: Homology implemented modest job cuts as it ended a gene therapy trial, while ProQR revealed its second round of layoffs this year and Synthetic Biologics shifted focus to oncolytic virus pipeline. Also, Bolt, MacroGenics and others deprioritized programs in their Q2 updates.
Strike Three As Novartis’s Ilaris Swings And Misses In Lung Cancer
The final Phase III readout for Ilaris (canakinumab) in NSCLC, this time in the adjuvant setting, missed the primary endpoint. One more lung cancer trial is under way, a Phase II neoadjuvant study.
Finance Watch: Karuna, Cerevel And Others Benefit From Improving Biotech Sentiment
Good news in the biopharma industry and the US economy gave public drug developers the boost they needed to raise cash, including Karuna’s $750m offering. Private company financings slowed during the second week of August, but Prellis and Vector BioPharma raised venture capital.
Anthos Takes On Pharma Giants In Factor XI Anticoagulation Space
CEO John Glasspool spoke with Scrip about why Anthos believes it has a good shot against big competitors in a market that is expected to generate blockbuster sales across multiple products.
Finance Watch: Sironax, IDRx, OriCell Reveal First VC Mega-Rounds Of August
Private Company Edition: Sironax completed a $200m series B round while IDRx launched with $122m and OriCell raised $120m in series C funds, joining end-of-July $100m-plus fundraiser Carmot Therapeutics, which closed a $160m series D financing.
Amgen’s $3.7bn ChemoCentryx Buy May Help Offset Growing Pains
Amgen is acquiring a pipeline-in-a-pill with ChemoCentryx’s Tavneos, currently approved for ANCA-associated vasculitis, at a time when the company’s existing portfolio is struggling to maintain sales growth.