News in Numbers
£82.6m
The UK government has pledged £82.6m ($102.2m) in research funding to back artificial intelligence (AI) companies working on technologies to accelerate drug development.
21
The World Health Organisation (WHO) highlighted 21 tropical diseases that have historically ranked very low on the global health agenda on World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (30 January),
$94.2m
Aardvark Therapeutics has raised $94.2m in an initial public offering (IPO) to support the development of its hunger-suppressing drug ARD-101 for the rare disease Prader-Willi syndrome.
3
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved three novel drug treatments in 2025 so far – two more than at the same time last year.
1,270
The Trump administration has axed 1,270 of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, around half of the agency's probationary workers, as per multiple news outlets.
