BioSpace News Archive

Odonate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ODT), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of best-in-class therapeutics that improve and extend the lives of patients with cancer, today announced the initiation of Cohort 3 of CONTESSA TRIO, which will evaluate tesetaxel monotherapy in approximately 60 non-elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC).

Basking Biosciences, Inc. (Basking), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing a next generation treatment for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) announced an initial closing of a $5.4M Seed Series financing

Emerald Bioscience, Inc. (OTCQB: EMBI) (“Emerald” or the “Company”), a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing proprietary molecules with strong clinical and commercial differentiation, announced today that Punit Dhillon, CEO, Emerald Bioscience will be present a corporate overview at the Benzinga Global Small Cap Virtual Conference taking place on December 8-9, 2020.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX), Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) and Athyrium Capital Management, LP today announced transactions totaling $325 million in funding for BioCryst, with $250 million available at closing, to support the launch of ORLADEYO™ (berotralstat) in hereditary angioedema (HAE) and the development of its oral Factor D inhibitor, BCX9930.

ValGenesis, Inc., a market leader in Enterprise Validation Lifecycle Management Systems, announced that a global medical devices company has digitized its corporate validation process, driven by cloud-based ValGenesis VLMS – the industry’s most trusted electronic validation lifecycle management system.

Sensentia, a leading-edge healthcare technology company focused on making health insurance information more accessible by leveraging AI, is exhibiting at the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum 2020 hosted virtually from December 7th - 9th.

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC (Upsher-Smith) today announced that as part of its ongoing effort to reimagine prescriber education during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has launched a new and innovative peer-to-peer product education program entitled Migraine PeerConnect.

AVACEN Medical (AVACEN) announced the completion and results from the second part of its sponsored 50 person study of glucose tolerance in Type 2 diabetics

OncoMyx Therapeutics, a privately-held oncolytic immunotherapy company, announced today that The University of Western Ontario (Western) has assigned to OncoMyx the technology and patent rights associated with pioneering research on the use of myxoma virus in the treatment of cancer.

Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc., an oncology company focused on developing and commercializing primary allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies to treat cancer, announced today U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowance of the company’s investigational new drug (IND) application for AB-101, an optimized and cryopreserved off-the-shelf NK cell therapy.