STAT October 15, 2024
Meghana Keshavan

Hello! Hope you had a restful and reflective Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Today, we talk about how the autoimmune disease space is hotter than ever, see more gene therapy contraction, and the CEO of a generics giant talks about how elections affect industry.

The need-to-know this morning

Investment in autoimmune disease is soaring

Investment has surged this year in autoimmune disease: More than $1.7 billion has been committed to this space in the first half of the year alone. That surpasses investment in the ultra-hot spaces like cardiometabolic disease and obesity.

The influx, STAT’s Allison DeAngelis writes, is driven largely by breakthroughs in CAR-T therapy, particularly its efficacy in lupus. Cancer companies now...

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