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Stephen Mitchener Named Chief Business Officer, Bringing More than 17 Years of Partnering and Corporate Development Experience

Dr. Chen brings over twenty years of clinical research and development experience; including executing global registrational trials in relapsed and refractory AML

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it will host a live investor day webcast on Monday, December 7th at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time to provide an overview of its commercial strategy, key opportunities in its cardiovascular and neurological franchises and recent technology advances.

LianBio, a biotechnology company focused on bringing paradigm-shifting medicines to patients in China and other major Asian markets, today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has cleared the Company’s Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to conduct the Phase 2a trial of infigratinib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastr

Turnstone Biologics Corp., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of engineered viral immunotherapies, today announced enrollment of the first patients in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial (RAPTOR) of its RIVAL-01/TAK-605 candidate in patients with solid tumors, conducted in collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”).

Athira Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHA), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to restore neuronal health and stop neurodegeneration, today announced that patient dosing has begun in ACT-AD, a Phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled study of ATH-1017 in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease

Poster Presentations for CG-806 and APTO-253 are scheduled for December 5th and 6th at 2020 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Plus Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTV) (the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel, targeted and personalized therapies for rare and difficult to treat cancers, today announced that the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is now an active clinical trial site in its ongoing ReSPECT™ Phase 1 clinical trial, currently supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq:CYTK) today announced additional results from GALACTIC-HF (Global Approach to Lowering Adverse Cardiac Outcomes Through Improving Contractility in Heart Failure), the Phase 3 event driven cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial of omecamtiv mecarbil, will be presented at the 17th Global Cardiovascular Clinical Trialists Forum

Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new generation of human enzyme therapeutics as innovative solutions for rare and other high burden diseases, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to ACN00177 for the treatment of Homocystinuria,