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Biopharma companies secured $102.15 billion in funding in 2024, a 44% increase from $70.97 billion in the full-year 2023 and significantly higher than the $60.81 billion raised in 2022. December financings reached $4.69 billion, marking an increase from $3.6 billion in November.

Publication on Dec. 12, 2024, of data analysis regarding Merck & Co. Inc.’s Winrevair (sotatercept) in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics may have put investors in mind of the odds for the activin signaling inhibitor beyond pulmonary arterial hypertension, the indication for which Winrevair was approved by the U.S. FDA in March of last year.

The top 10 med-tech stock gainers and losers for the week.

Biopharma companies secured $102.15 billion in funding in 2024, a 44% increase from $70.97 billion in the full-year 2023 and significantly higher than the $60.81 billion raised in 2022. December financings reached $4.69 billion, marking an increase from $3.6 billion in November.

Companies working in the field of women’s health have long struggled for funding, but as the number of these companies increase and new dedicated venture capital funds emerge, the conversation is changing.