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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., July 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDGL), a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), today announced that it granted equity awards on July 1, 2025 and July 15, 2025 to a total of 30 new non-executive employees as equity inducement awards under the terms of Madrigal’s 2025 Inducement Plan. The equity awards were approved by Madrigal’s independent Compensation Committee in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Piston Bio LLC, a biotechnology company developing both small molecules and biologics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that its scientific advisors have endorsed the potential of its next-generation therapeutic designed to induce tumor surface antigens and prevent immune escape. The endorsement follows a scientific advisory board meeting convened last month to review nonclinical data.

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rani Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (“Rani Therapeutics” or “Rani”) (Nasdaq: RANI), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the oral delivery of biologics and drugs, today announced that it will present preclinical data on the RaniPill® capsule at the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting (ENDO 2025) taking place July 12-15 in San Francisco, CA.

Data show that PALSONIFY was well tolerated and IGF-1 levels remained stably controlled during long-term open label extensions of PATHFNDR-1 and PATHFNDR-2 studies

- Presentations highlight clinically meaningful reductions in BMI in patients with acquired hypothalamic obesity –

SAN DIEGO, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNX) today announced that on July 10, 2025, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock option awards to purchase an aggregate of 102,350 shares of its common stock and granted an aggregate of 77,875 restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards to 46 new non-executive employees, in each case, under the Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021 Employment Inducement Incentive Award Plan (the “2021 Inducement Plan”). The stock options and RSUs were granted as inducements material to the employees entering into employment with Crinetics in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

Daix (France), New York City (New York, United States), July 9, 2025 – Inventiva (Euronext Paris and Nasdaq: IVA) (“Inventiva” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral therapies for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (“MASH”), today announced a leadership transition with the appointment of Jason Campagna, MD, PhD, as President of Research and Development (“R&D”) and Chief Medical Officer (“CMO”) and Martine Zimmermann, PharmD, as Executive Vice President (“EVP”) of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance.