BioSpace News Archive

Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a pioneer and global leader in cell-free DNA testing, filed suit yesterday against ArcherDX, Inc. for infringement of Natera’s U.S. Patent No. 10,731,220 (the “‘220 Patent”). The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court of Delaware .

Cancer Targeted Technology (CTT), a privately-held Seattle-based biotechnology company, announced that the NIH awarded CTT $1.44M on the second year of a competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB grant. The three year grant commenced in 2019 and totals $3.3M and this second year of funding supports the current CTT1403 clinical trial. The clinical trial, conducted at University of California, San Francis

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Evrysdi™ (risdiplam), the first at-home, orally administered treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in adults and children 2 months and older.

BaseLaunch, the Basel Area-based biotech venture accelerator and incubator, today announces that CSL Behring, a leading global biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and delivering medicines for people with rare and serious diseases, becomes the fifth partner in BaseLaunch Phase II, the next phase in BaseLaunch’s company building activities.

Andera Partners, a European investment management firm, announced today that its portfolio company T-knife GmbH, a next-generation adoptive T-cell company using its proprietary humanized T-cell receptor (HuTCR) mouse platform to treat solid tumors, closed a €66 million Series A round of financing. T

Guardant Health, Inc. announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Guardant360® CDx for tumor mutation profiling, also known as comprehensive genomic profiling, in patients with any solid malignant neoplasm.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Evrysdi (risdiplam) to treat patients two months of age and older with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare and often fatal genetic disease affecting muscle strength and movement.

J-STAR Research, Inc. (J-Star) and XtalPi will be hosting the 2020 Pharmaceutical Crystallization Summit on October 7th and 8th, 2020, online (live).

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) (the “Company”) announced today that it has completed its previously announced offering of $450 million in aggregate principal amount of its 3.875% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2028 (the “Notes”). The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by all of the Company’s direct and indirect subsidiaries that guarantee debt under its credit facilities. The Company has used the

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of $1.250 billion aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2030 (the “2030 notes”) and $750 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2050 (the “2050 notes” and, together with the 2030 not