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Business

Cambridge Epigenetix Appoints Professor Mark Dawson as Scientific Advisor

The appointment further strengthens CEGX’s panel of opinion leaders providing expert advice across the Company’s key focus areas of epigenetics, oncology, liquid biopsy, diagnostic and therapeutic development.

November 27, 2017

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Drug Development

Pivotal Trial Data Support Potential of Seno Medical Instruments’ Imagio Opto-Acoustic Breast Imaging System in Reducing False Positive Breast Examinations and Benign Biopsies

The study found that OA/US was more specific than device gray-scale ultrasound alone in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions and was non-inferior to US with respect to sensitivity.

November 27, 2017

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Biotech Beach

San Diego’s Biolinq Scores $10M Series A

Biolinq’s first commercial product will allow patients with diabetes to continuously monitor their blood glucose without the pain and hassle of traditional continuous glucose monitoring systems.

November 27, 2017

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Biogen Poaches Merck Exec to Lead New Marketing Te

Business

Biogen Forges $278M MS Tie-Up With Alkermes

Biogen will receive an exclusive, worldwide license to commercialize ALKS 8700 and will pay Alkermes a mid-teens royalty on worldwide net sales of ALKS 8700.

November 27, 2017

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Drug Development

Kalytera Announces Second U.S. Patent for Prevention and Treatment of Graft Versus Host Disease

Kalytera’s Phase 2 study is expected to enroll 36 patients following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (“HCT”), commonly referred to as bone marrow transplantation.

November 27, 2017

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Policy

Benitec Biopharma Provides Update on OPMD Orphan Disease Program

In addition, over the past several weeks, the Benitec team has now completed pre-IND and scientific advice meetings with the U.S. FDA, Health Canada and several European agencies.

November 27, 2017

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BioMidwest

Sigmascreening Showcases Sensitive Sigma Paddle at RSNA

Based on breast-size and tissue-stiffness the Sensitive Sigma Paddle calculates the pressure to achieve an optimal compression of 75mmHg and allows for a highly reproducible procedure.

November 27, 2017

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Drug Development

Eureka Announces FDA Allowance of Investigational New Drug Application for ET190L1-ARTEMIS™ T cell Therapy in Relapsed and Refractory CD19+ Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

In preclinical studies, ET190L1-ARTEMIS matched the cancer killing potency of current CAR-T therapies but with a dramatic reduction in the levels of inflammatory cytokines released

November 27, 2017

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Policy

Sobi Receives Approval From Health Canada for Orfadin (nitisinone) Oral Suspension for the Treatment of HT-1

Orfadin is the first medicine approved in multiple countries globally for use in combination with dietary restriction of tyrosine and phenylalanine in the treatment of hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1).

November 27, 2017

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Business

Materialise and Siemens Healthineers syngo.via Partner to Bring 3D Printing to Hospitals Worldwide

The partnership makes Materialise Mimics inPrint software, a dedicated solution for printing anatomical models in hospitals, available to radiologists through the Siemens Healthineers syngo.via open app platform.

November 27, 2017

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