BioSpace News Archive

Spesana announced the appointment of John Verniero as Chief Business Officer, Court Veach as Vice President of Sales and Allen Rasoul as Vice President of Strategic Business Development to support Spesana’s next phase of commercial growth.

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. announced the presentation of data that showed SAGE-718, a first-in-class, oral, positive allosteric modulator of the NMDA receptor, was associated with improvements on multiple tests of executive functioning and learning and memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Parkinson’s disease in the open label Phase 2 PARADIGM Study.

Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) announced a temporary 8%-12% energy surcharge on all of its global products, effective April 1, 2022.

Windtree Therapeutics, Inc. (NasdaqCM: WINT), a biotechnology company focused on advancing multiple late-stage interventions for acute cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders, today announced it has successfully completed enrollment in its phase 2 study of istaroxime in early cardiogenic shock caused by heart failure.

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced that it will stop the Phase 3 KEYLYNK-010 trial investigating KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with LYNPARZA, a PARP inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who progressed after treatment with chemotherapy and either abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide.

Passage Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage genetic medicines company focused on developing transformative therapies for central nervous system disorders, provided an update on strategic priorities to extend its cash runway.

Imara Inc. (Nasdaq: IMRA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat patients suffering from rare hemoglobin disorders and other serious diseases, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021 and reviewed recent business highlights.

Cogent Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: COGT), a biotechnology company focused on developing precision therapies for genetically defined diseases, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2021.

Enochian BioSciences, a company focused on gene modified cellular and immune therapies for infectious diseases and cancer, has issued an exclusive sub-license of one of its proprietary technologies that could improve the effectiveness of a potential cure for HIV with an anti-HIV CAR-T therapy that Caring Cross is studying in a clinical trial.

Shattuck Labs, Inc. (Shattuck) (NASDAQ: STTK), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of bi-functional fusion proteins as a new class of biologic medicine for the treatment of patients with cancer and autoimmune disease, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021 and provided recent business highlights.