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This week in Drug Discovery (1 June – 5 June)
News round-up for 1 June – 5 June by Bruno Quinney, Content Team at DDW.
This week, a cancer drug has demonstrated it could reduce tumours by as much as 55%. Elsewhere, AI has been a recurrent theme in both clinical trials and drug development.
The top stories:
Drug could reduce tumours by 55%, results show
Data presented at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting showed GRWD5769 shrank cancer tumours by a minimum 18%, with as much as 55% of tumours shrunk in non-small cell lung cancer.
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Obesity drugs could widen health inequalities, warn UK researchers
Without affordable, healthy food and appropriate support, obesity drugs such as semaglutide and tirzepatide could widen health inequalities, say researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge.
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Gene test guides more personalised breast cancer treatment
Many people with breast cancer can safely avoid chemotherapy with the use of a gene test, a large international clinical trial led by University College London (UCL) has found.
Trust and regulation holding back AI in clinical trials
A poll from The Pistoia Alliance found that half of respondents agreed trust and regulatory uncertainty were barriers to AI adoption in clinical trials.
First AI drug enters clinical development
CRDMO Quotient Sciences has announced a Phase I study of the AI-formulated drug was initiated at the company’s UK facility following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
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STAT+: Updated: Tracking RFK Jr.’s promises to remake health in America
Updated June 11, 2026
WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year and some change ago. He’s now had the opportunity to turn his words into action, with mixed results.
“All one needs” to prove the health secretary’s attentiveness is to “review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove,” Kennedy posted on X on Wednesday in response to a journalist.
Updated June 11, 2026
WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year and some change ago. He’s now had the opportunity to turn his words into action, with mixed results.
“All one needs” to prove the health secretary’s attentiveness is to “review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove,” Kennedy posted on X on Wednesday in response to a journalist.
Can any of the new obesity medications in development stand out from the pack? Which company just broke records with its IPO? And will the Food and Drug Administration allow greater access to experimental peptides?
We discuss all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast.
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RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We’ve been trying to get it for a year
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday pointed to his “publicly available calendar” as an example of his commitment to transparency and to beat back unfavorable reporting.
But no such calendar, detailing who Kennedy meets with or how he spends his time, has been released by the administration. STAT has been asking the Department of Health and Human Services for Kennedy’s calendar for more than a year, via Freedom of Information Act requests and emails to the press office.
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday pointed to his “publicly available calendar” as an example of his commitment to transparency and to beat back unfavorable reporting.
But no such calendar, detailing who Kennedy meets with or how he spends his time, has been released by the administration. STAT has been asking the Department of Health and Human Services for Kennedy’s calendar for more than a year, via Freedom of Information Act requests and emails to the press office.
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