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  • Inside Teva's Weltruza launch and Novo's GLP-1 strategy

    October 16, 2026 · 25 min

    In this week's episode of "The Top Line," we're looking at two companies building on recent successes and pursuing new opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry. From Teva's growing portfolio of innovative medicines to Novo's expanding…

  • The Next Chapter for AI in Clinical Trials [Sponsored]

    October 15, 2026 · 33 min

    Clinical AI is moving from systems that predict and summarize toward agents that can help execute parts of a workflow. In this sponsored episode of The Top Line, Will Hurth speaks with Saama’s Ari Srinivasan, chief customer success and…

  • How AI could improve clinical trial decision-making (Sponsored)

    October 12, 2026 · 23 min

    What if clinical development teams could evaluate potential trial outcomes before a study reaches patients? In this sponsored episode of The Top Line, host Irena Luo speaks with Raja Shankar, vice president for machine learning within AI…

  • How we picked the Fierce 15

    October 9, 2026 · 23 min

    What does it mean to be a Fierce 15 biotech in 2026? With this year’s list unveiled, the Fierce Biotech team gets together to discuss what the winners tell us about the state of the sector.In this week’s episode of "The Top Line," the…

  • Locking in on pharma’s consumerization trend

    October 2, 2026 · 19 min

    With GLP-1s paving the way, a consumer shift is happening across markets for certain branded pharmaceuticals. Now, the CEO of a buzzy pattern-hair-loss biotech is eyeing opportunities in an evolving market that could expand well beyond his…

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  • Fierce Pharma Week: A look at the biggest trends, campaigns and conversations

    September 25, 2026 · 25 min

    Fierce Pharma Week brought thousands of people to Philadelphia for four days of conversations about pharma marketing, commercialization, medical affairs and communications. In this episode of "The Top Line," Fierce editors share the…

  • Inside the growing world of biopharma prediction markets

    September 18, 2026 · 24 min

    Prediction markets are opening up new ways to bet on biopharma events, from clinical trial readouts to FDA approvals. But they also create a new set of risks for an industry where employees, researchers, contractors and others may have…

  • Clinical trials reach a new automation inflection point (Sponsored)

    September 14, 2026 · 17 min

    Clinical development organizations are facing mounting pressure to do more with increasingly complex protocols, larger data sets and tighter timelines. While automation has improved individual processes, many of the industry's most…

  • The future of RAS inhibitors

    September 11, 2026 · 29 min

    Revolution Medicines recently made history with the approval of its RAS inhibitor Rasonque for advanced pancreatic cancer. But behind RevMed is an entire field of biotechs working to broaden the reach of RAS-targeting drugs. In this…

  • The people who stayed with the problem

    September 4, 2026 · 25 min

    The 2026 Fierce 50 includes people and organizations working on very different problems across biopharma and healthcare, from designing new proteins and developing cancer medicines to protecting vaccine science, improving health literacy…

  • Why Diagnostic-Driven Therapies Still Miss Eligible Patients (Sponsored)

    September 2, 2026 · 13 min

    The promise of precision medicine depends on more than scientific innovation. It also depends on whether eligible patients can be identified, tested and connected to the most appropriate treatment. In this episode of The Top Line, host…

  • MrBeast, Snapchat, AI and more: Pharma marketing’s pulse check

    August 28, 2026 · 21 min

    As Fierce Pharma Week approaches, the Fierce Pharma Marketing team is taking stock of some of the biggest trends reshaping how drugmakers and healthcare agencies reach audiences. In this week’s episode of “The Top Line,” Fierce’s Ben…

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About the show

Biopharma and medtech explained. Every week, journalists from Fierce Biotech, Fierce Medtech, and Fierce Pharma recount the latest industry trends and why they matter. We'll analyze the week's biggest business news, from mergers and marketing to drug R&D and device development. Available every Friday morning.