Pharmaceutical Executive Daily: President Trump Planning New Medicaid Drug-Pricing Deals

Foghorn Therapeutics and Eli Lilly discontinue their SMARCA2 degrader program, Novartis licenses Abogen's autoimmune mRNA therapy while AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, and Summit Therapeutics team up on a breast cancer combination trial, and Corxel's Bo Liang makes the case for oral GLP-1 therapies.

Shionogi, Gate Bioscience, and Alector post a trio of new deals, Rajul Jain makes the case for social listening as a medical affairs strategic tool, and Doceree's Vijay Adapala argues that HCP engagement is a systems-design problem, not a communications one.

Jewel Jones warns that pharma catches patient disengagement too late, CSL and Alentis Therapeutics join Jiangsu Nhwa and Somnivera in a day of new licensing deals, and Corxel's Bo Liang calls GLP-1's leap to bariatric-surgery-level efficacy the biggest surprise in obesity medicine.

Can artificial intelligence help turn what many believe is clinical development’s biggest variable — and most prevailing bottleneck — into a more predictable process? In this episode of the Pharm Exec podcast, Matt Walz, CEO of Trialbee, a patient recruitment company, joins Mike Christel, group …