BioSpace News Archive

Policy

Argentum Pharma Wins Patent Invalidation Trial Against the Sole Remaining Patent Protecting Janssen’s ZYTIGA

In today’s decision, the PTO concluded that Argentum “satisfied its burden of demonstrating, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the subject matter of claims 1-20 would have been obvious,” and therefore ordered “that claims 1-20 are held unpatentable.”

January 17, 2018
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Business

Premas, IncellDx Ink India Distribution Agreement

The commercial partnership brings the power of cell by cell multiplex diagnostics for solid tumors carcinomas that can now be analyzed for molecular and protein biomarkers by flow cytometry.

January 17, 2018
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Business

Glythera Appoints Chief Scientific Officer and Strengthens SAB

Dr Lutz will lead the advancement of Glythera’s portfolio of Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) in the treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers.

January 17, 2018
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Business

X-Chem Enters Expanded Global Drug Discovery and Technology Transfer Collaboration with AstraZeneca

The new agreement focuses on the synthesis and delivery of custom libraries to AstraZeneca as well as the transfer of the DEX platform, allowing for in-house screening of DNA-encoded libraries at AstraZeneca.

January 17, 2018
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Deals

CanniMed Therapeutics Reminds Shareholders to Vote the GREEN Proxy FOR the Acquisition of Newstrike Resources

CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. reminds shareholders that the only way to see real value for their CanniMed shares is to vote the GREEN proxy FOR CanniMed’s acquisition of Newstrike Resources Ltd.

January 17, 2018
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Drug Development

OBI Pharma Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for a Phase 1 Study of a Monoclonal Antibody Cancer Immunotherapy (OBI-888).

OBI plans to enroll patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors of all types.

January 17, 2018
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Policy

Outpost Medicine Announces Acceptance of Two Investigational New Drug Applications for OP-687 by U.S. FDA

The FDA DBRUP and the DGIEP accepted the INDs for the treatment of overactive bladder and iIBS, respectively.

January 17, 2018
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Drug Development

BioLineRx Announces Partial Monotherapy Results From Phase IIa COMBAT Study in Pancreatic Cancer

The partial results from the BL-8040 monotherapy portion of the COMBAT trial show that BL-8040 was safe and well-tolerated.

January 17, 2018
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Biotech Bay

Carmot Therapeutics Announces Close of Series B Financing

Carmot announced today that it has closed a $15M financing.

January 17, 2018
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FDA

Asuragen Obtains CE Mark of QuantideX qPCR BCR-ABL Kits on Roche Diagnostics cobas z 480 Analyzer

Asuragen announced that it has expanded its CE mark of the QuantideX qPCR BCR-ABL IS Kit and QuantideX qPCR BCR-ABL minor Kit to include clinical use on the Roche Diagnostics cobas z 480 Analyzer.

January 17, 2018
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