The chaos Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy has injected into the U.S. vaccine market could have long-term consequences as vaccine makers reevaluate business decisions and pipelines.
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to reverse the decision, the NIH’s attempt to cap indirect costs at 15% in all its grants is dead. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a permanent injunction Jan. 5 that was issued by a lower court, vacating an NIH supplemental guidance imposing the across-the-board cap both retroactively and prospectively.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, and other regulatory decisions and designations: Altimmune, GH Research, GSK, Humacyte, Idorsia, Kelun-Biotech, Maplight, Moderna, Protagonist, Sanofi, Scinopharm, Takeda.
The newly released 2026 edition of Clarivate’s Drugs to Watch report highlights 11 potential blockbusters that could change treatment paradigms for patients.
South Korea’s National Assembly approved the largest budgets for its health ministries in 2026, including the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.