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Kalshi to allow bets on clinical trials, FDA decisions
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16 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 16 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Kalshi, a prediction market platform, has launched betting on clinical trial outcomes and FDA regulatory decisions in partnership with AppliedXL, starting with late-stage trials and initial contracts including Gilead's anito-cel cancer drug and Summit Therapeutics' lung cancer drug. Traders are required to verify employment and cannot hold material nonpublic information.
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If you're a biotech running late-stage trials, your clinical odds are now public and tradeable—which means insider knowledge about your drug's performance just became valuable to hostile traders with deep pockets. You now have a financial adversary with direct interest in your trial stumbling.
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Digital Health · prediction-markets · clinical-trials · fda-approval · drug-development · information-asymmetry