{"id":5290,"date":"2025-07-14T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/biotech-news-ultragenyx-fda-takeda-astrazeneca-wegovy-zepbou-readout\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:03:09","slug":"biotech-news-ultragenyx-fda-takeda-astrazeneca-wegovy-zepbou-readout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/biotech-news-ultragenyx-fda-takeda-astrazeneca-wegovy-zepbou-readout\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: FDA declines to approve Ultragenyx gene therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: FDA declines to approve Ultragenyx gene therapy<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/readout\/\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morning! It\u2019s Meghana\u00a0today, writing about GLP-1s being deployed for addiction, weighing the FDA commissioner\u2019s vision versus reality, and more.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-need-to-know-this-morning\">The need-to-know this morning<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<strong>AstraZeneca<\/strong>\u00a0said its experimental hypertension drug, baxdrostat,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marketing.statnews.com\/e3t\/Ctc\/LV+113\/cp47z04\/VVB4p62CHrbdV57NBx3xHjnFW22vCbp5y-LxPN6TZ7rW5nR3bW69t95C6lZ3k_W7vpN0x2xDNS0N6vygW7hXz7KN1GltdTrPy4lW56C-_V66XDQSW78GMhQ2xs9v0Vzz1vP2k-WfBW57SDgX93j_xRW5mX13r2NjBW_VWpBtg78GxPdW7StKMP8s5KMQN1WR_R2-1Hf5W2TX5Wd1F_d6gW4L7lLT6N8g-BW71wlkG5MRqwtW9hsWMn3308TtW4ldR_C7txmymW3WbQyt2Wh383W7CPd7Y1lLw6pW8pFMKR8psxgwV_d0Nf4y3409V5s6vs70vC7kW8CrPDd4pfYK1N4r15g11PC1PW4TQrSK6QSf1mW4V11hZ33WzSBW4lFmsg683N93W16B5712hSk0_W8Y6m1c82wMDMN84Mhv8xw09pW8Wk9qN3DwdhpW4cNZQy66GpjqW8wGYhB4TRg_7W872m4G768WmnW5YkPXV8l8GngW145VQC8KtGsDW3KtLK_3bXVKKf8FPdWC04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduced treatment-resistant blood pressure<\/a>\u00a0in a late-stage clinical trial. The drug works by lowering blood pressure in a new way, different from currently available medicines. If approved, AstraZeneca has told investors baxdrostat could become a multibillion-dollar commercial product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Makary\u2019s big promises at FDA get a closer inspection<\/h2>\n<p>In his first 100 days as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary has made a handful of splashy announcements \u2014 from pledging transparency on rejection letters to floating fast-track vouchers for drugs tied to national health priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/14\/biotech-news-ultragenyx-fda-takeda-astrazeneca-wegovy-zepbou-readout\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Meghana Keshavan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/14\/biotech-news-ultragenyx-fda-takeda-astrazeneca-wegovy-zepbou-readout\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: FDA declines to approve Ultragenyx gene therapy Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?\u00a0Sign up\u00a0to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Morning! It\u2019s Meghana\u00a0today, writing about GLP-1s being deployed for addiction, weighing the FDA commissioner\u2019s vision versus reality, and more. The need-to-know this morning AstraZeneca\u00a0said its experimental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2154,2208,2155,858,2207],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-biotechnology","category-drug-development","category-pharmaceuticals","category-research","category-the-readout","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}