BioSpace News Archive

Rakuten Medical has appointed two new directors to the company’s Board: David Chao, co-founder and General Partner of DCM Ventures; and Kentaro Hyakuno, Chief Operating Officer and Group Executive Vice President of Rakuten, Inc.

An audio webcast of the Stifel presentation will be available online at OrthoPediatrics’ investor relations website, http://ir.orthopediatrics.com. Additionally, a replay will be available for 90 days after the presentation.

New Analyses From the Landmark Repatha® (Evolocumab) FOURIER Cardiovascular Outcomes Study Evaluate Clinical Efficacy and Outcomes in Diverse High-Risk Patient Populations

Part of BioTheryX’s previously announced plan to continue building out its Board of Directors with key industry leaders now that Company has transitioned from preclinical to clinical with lead Acute Myeloid Leukemia (“AML”) compound BTX-A51

Company launches new syringe flag labels to help raise patient safety and to reduce the risk of drug and dosing errors

Gossamer Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOSS), today announced that two abstracts supporting GB002, the Company’s inhaled PDGFR inhibitor for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), have been accepted for presentation at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2019 being held November 16- 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Goldfinch Bio, a U.S.-based, clinical stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing precision medicines for the treatment of kidney diseases, presented a novel approach to producing human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived organoids at scale in an oral presentation on November 9th at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2019 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK), today announced topline data from MAVERICK-HCM, the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of mavacamten in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)

Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) Designation and Fast Track Designation for ATM-AVI (aztreonam and avibactam), for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI), complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), and hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP)/ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP)

Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clear Genetics, a leading developer of software for providing genetic services at scale.