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Medacta International Appoints Francesco Siccardi its Next Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Alberto Siccardi, Medacta’s founder and longtime CEO, will remain President of the company’s Board of Directors

October 1, 2018
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Zecotek Commences Manufacture of Solid-state Photo Diodes and Transistors and Targets Emerging Industries of Self-Driving Autos, Agriculture and Genomics

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that it has initiated the manufacturing of its new generation series of solid-state micro-pixel avalanche photo diodes and transistors (MAPD/T) at the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronics Systems.

October 1, 2018
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InteRNA Presents Expanded Preclinical Proof-of-concept Data on Lead Oncology Development Candidate INT-1B3 at the 14th Annual OTS Meeting

Two poster presentations highlight INT-1B3’s immune-system activation and CD8+ T cell-driven anti-tumor response in addition to its distinct MoA, targeting multiple hallmarks of cancer.

October 1, 2018
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BioMidwest

Minnetronix Neuro Successfully Completes First Clinical Study in Hemorrhagic Stroke

Minnesota-based Company to Present at Late Breaking Session during Congress of Neurological Surgeons

October 1, 2018
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Deals

RXi Pharmaceuticals Announces Pricing Of $15 Million Upsized Underwritten Public Offering

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 21,428,572 units at a price to the public of $0.70 per unit.

October 1, 2018
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5 min read
Lone Star Bio

Caris Life Sciences Raises $150 Million in Growth Capital From TPG Sixth Street Partners

Caris to accelerate development of Next Generation Profiling to analyze whole exome, whole transcriptome and the complete cancer proteome using its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) analytic engine, DEAN, on tens of thousands of patients with mature clinical outcomes

October 1, 2018
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4 min read
Genetown

Corindus Technology Successfully used in Multiple Live Complex Robotic-Assisted Coronary Interventions at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2018

Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc. (NYSE American: CVRS), a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announced today that its CorPath GRX System was used for multiple complex robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) at the recent Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2018 Conference.

October 1, 2018
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Drug Development

Seattle Genetics and Takeda Announce Positive Results from Phase 3 ECHELON-2 Clinical Trial Evaluating ADCETRIS® (Brentuximab Vedotin) in Frontline CD30-Expressing Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma

ADCETRIS in Combination with Chemotherapy Achieved Primary Endpoint, Demonstrating a Statistically Significant Improvement in Progression-Free Survival Compared to a Standard of Care Chemotherapy

October 1, 2018
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25 min read
Business

Pfizer Announces CEO Succession

Effective January 1, 2019, Dr. Albert Bourla to become Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Ian Read to serve as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

October 1, 2018
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Targovax Presented ONCOS-102 Poster at 13th International Adenovirus Meeting

Targovax ASA announces that the Company presented at the following conference:

October 1, 2018
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1 min read