BioSpace News Archive

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for intravenous injection for the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) colorectal cancer

TopDevz, one of America’s fastest-growing software consulting firm, announced today the delivery of yet another custom software development project: a web-based commission payment system for the world’s largest medical device distributor.

CRISPR Therapeutics (Nasdaq:CRSP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases, today announced that it is commencing an underwritten public offering of $325,000,000 of common shares.

Akero Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKRO) today announced that the company plans to discuss new efficacy and safety data, including biopsy results, from its Phase 2a BALANCED study of AKR-001 in patients with biopsy-confirmed nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in a post-market press release and webcast to be held on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.

BIOASIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“Bioasis”) (TSXV:BTI.V; OTCQB:BIOAF),a pre-clinical, research-stage biopharmaceutical company developing its proprietary xB3 TM platform technology for the delivery of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier (the “BBB”) and the treatment of central nervous system (“CNS”) disorders in areas of high unmet medical need, including rare genetic diseases, brain cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and pain,

NantKwest, Inc. (Nasdaq: NK), a clinical-stage, natural killer cell-based therapeutics company, announced today the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of an aggregate of 8,521,500 shares of its common stock (4,811,500 shares at a price to the public of $9.50 per share and 3,710,000 shares at a price of $12.12 per share to NantKwest’s chairman,

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has joined the broad-market Russell 3000® Index at the conclusion of the 2020 Russell Indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opened today.

Cellectis S.A. held its Annual Shareholders’ General Meeting (Euronext Growth: ALCLS – Nasdaq: CLLS) on June 29, 2020 at its head office in Paris, France.

Arvinas, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARVN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company creating a new class of drugs based on targeted protein degradation, today announced that Wendy Dixon, Ph.D., has joined its Board of Directors.

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as monotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) colorectal cancer