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- By Lilian Zhang and Nikhil Bhojwani
For years, digital biomarkers have seemed like a promising way to transform drug clinical trials, yet their adoption journey has been uneven. We’ve watched as the excitement for Proteus's ingestible …
- By Allison Cremer, Nikhil Bhojwani, and Jason Brauner
In February 2025, the FDA gave IND approval to United Therapeutics for the first xenotransplantation clinical trial, which followed a series of high-profile transplants via the compassionate use pathw…
- By Dan Lee and Jason Brauner
Introduction
In 2017, the FDA approved Luxturna for the treatment of Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA), marking the first gene therapy used for an inherited disease in the U.S. The curative potential…
- By Marc Herant
Preempting severe genetic disease
Around 2% of births come with a genetic disease, often with devastating impact. While some appear de novo (either from germplasm dominant mutations or from chromosoma…
- By Martha Deja and Marc Herant
Working paper:
Over the coming decades, Alzheimer’s disease threatens to become a huge drag on national well-being. To put things in perspective, by 2040, the US may be allocating more resources to th…
- By Sarah Dolman
The biopharma industry is known for its high risk and potential high reward, but R&D costs have skyrocketed over the past century, delivering diminishing returns on investment. Despite breakthroug…
- By Marc Herant
The new Humira?
It’s not that often that you see industry-sponsored head-to-head studies of one biologic vs. another, but Abbvie took the plunge comparing risankizumab (Skyrizi) to ustekinumab (Stela…
- By Phiona Nabagereka and Lilian Zhang
This post, by a high school senior who spent the summer with Recon Strategy as a paid intern, explores the literature on doula support for pregnant mothers to complement traditional care to both impro…
- By Lilian Zhang, Jason Brauner, and Marc Herant
We refresh a prior analysis of two cohorts of oncology development programs: one with first-in-human (FIH) in 2012, and the other with FIH in 2017H2. We use a Kaplan-Meier approach to track whether pr…