More than 75 industry executives and experts gazed into the crystal ball and shared with Scrip their predictions around transformative technologies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, AI was the dominant theme – but gene editing, cell therapies and new targeting modalities were also among the highlights.

The European Medicines Agency says it does not have enough data to justify the approval of Olumiant for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The marketing authorization application for another product, Reata’s Imbarkyd for chronic kidney disease, has also been withdrawn.

Viridian says Phase I/II data for its thyroid eye disease candidate outperforms Horizon’s Tepezza on multiple measures. Company plans quick advancement into Phase III for VRDN-001.

French biotech brings candidate for Gaucher and Parkinson’s disease in-house under 2020 pact with Weizmann. Cellevolve, Seattle Children’s partner on cell therapies for CNS cancers.