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BostonGene Corporation, a biomedical software company committed to defining optimal precision medicine-based therapies for cancer patients, today announced the publication of two manuscripts furthering our understanding of heterogeneity in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced it has been awarded $16.5 million by the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) to support Rigel’s ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of fostamatinib in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Global laser dermatology Key Opinion Leader and authority on psoriasis, Mark Nestor, MD PhD, recently published a peer-reviewed study in JDD – i.e. Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.

Mallinckrodt plc, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced that it received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

On February 27, 2020, the flagship journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, published a case study that described two patients from Wuhan, China who recently underwent lung lobectomies for adenocarcinoma and were retrospectively found to have had COVID-19 at the time of surgery.

Novan, Inc. (“the Company” or “Novan”) (Nasdaq: NOVN), today announced that it has received written notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that the Company has regained compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

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

Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that on January 27, 2021, the Compensation Committee of Xeris’ Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock options for an aggregate of 16,000 shares of its common stock to 38 new employee under Xeris’ Inducement Equity Plan.

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced that its investigational KRASG12C inhibitor sotorasib was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).

ImmunoGen Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGN), a leader in the expanding field of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the Company will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on Friday, February 12, 2021 to discuss its 2020 operating results.