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Biotech Bay

Shriners Hospitals for Children Establishes New Genomics Institute to Advance Precision Medicine in Partnership with Genome Medical

Shriners Hospitals and Leading Telegenomics Provider Team Up to Return Actionable Genetic Findings for Pediatric Patients

October 30, 2019
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5 min read
Business

Arranta Bio announces $82M in new funding, and a strategic partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific

Arranta Bio announced the completion of an $82 million funding round and a strategic partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

October 30, 2019
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4 min read
Policy

FDA Accepts Genentech’s Biologics License Application for Satralizumab for Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Satralizumab represents a potential new approach to treating neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), a rare, debilitating disease often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS)

October 30, 2019
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8 min read
Medivir Presents MIV-818 Data at AACR-NCI-EORTC in Boston

Medivir AB announces that a poster entitled “MIV-818 stimulates an anti-tumor immune response in vitro and enhances the effects of pembrolizumab” was presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC conference in Boston.

October 30, 2019
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2 min read
Drug Development

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Announces Top-Line Results of CMS-001, a Phase 3 Trial of Firdapse® (Amifampridine Phosphate) in Patients with Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS)

CMS-001 trial is the first and only double-blinded, placebo-controlled study ever conducted in genetically confirmed CMS patients

October 30, 2019
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6 min read
Biotech Bay

New Study Shows Growing Shortage of U.S. Oncologists Poses Risks to Women’s Health

Analysis Identifies the 10 Major U.S. Cities Most Likely to Suffer a Shortage of Oncologists

October 30, 2019
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4 min read
Deals

ESSA Pharma Grants Stock Options - Oct. 30, 2019

ESSA Pharma Inc. announced that, pursuant to its stock option plan, it has granted incentive stock options to non – executive members of the Corporation’s board of directors to purchase up to an aggregate of 225,000 common shares in the capital of the Corporation.

October 30, 2019
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3 min read
Beactica Therapeutics Participates in Innovative Training Network on Targeted Protein Degradation

Beactica Therapeutics, the Swedish drug discovery company, announced its participation in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network called UbiMotif.

October 30, 2019
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2 min read
Business

United Therapeutics Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results

United Therapeutics Corporation announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2019.

October 30, 2019
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14 min read
Biotech Bay

Epidemic of deaths due to heart failure underway in U.S.

Kaiser Permanente research identifies national trend linked to aging of baby boomers and upturn in heart disease mortality

October 30, 2019
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3 min read