All entries for: Caribou Biosciences

March 5, 2026

Caribou Biosciences

Neutral Outlook

Berkeley, CA
51-200 employees

In May 2025, the administration published an executive order regarding most favored nation (“MFN”) drug pricing, which is sometimes referred to as “international reference pricing.” This executive order directs the Secretary of HHS to communicate MFN price targets to pharmaceutical manufacturers and, if significant progress toward MFN pricing is not delivered, to propose a rulemaking plan to implement MFN pricing. Recently, on December 23, 2025, CMS issued proposed regulations to establish, under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, two mandatory MFN pricing demonstration models under Medicare Part B and Part D. If these rules or other MFN pricing rules are finalized, they are likely to mandate reduced pricing of at least some of the drugs and biologics in the United States if they are also sold in comparator countries.

March 5, 2026

Caribou Biosciences

Neutral Outlook

Berkeley, CA
51-200 employees

Thus, while it is unclear how the IRA will be implemented, it will likely have a significant impact on the pharmaceutical industry and the pricing of products.

Disease Area: Hematology, Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic
April 28, 2025

Caribou Biosciences

Layoffs

Berkeley, CA
51-200 employees

Caribou Biosciences’ latest pivot to immunology is not going to plan. The cell and gene therapy company is laying off nearly one-third of its workforce and ending work on its lupus pipeline, according to an SEC filing April 24. That leaves the Berkeley, California–based biotech with just two remaining assets, both allogeneic, or “off-the-shelf,” CAR T products for a variety of different cancers. Caribou expects the layoffs to be mostly done by the end of the second quarter. The cuts affect 47 employees, representing 32% of the company’s staff.

Disease Area: Hematology, Immune Diseases, Multiple, Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic
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