BioSpace News Archive

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing innovative, protein-based immunotherapies, announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Vertex will acquire Alpine for $65 per share or approximately $4.9 billion in cash.

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global medtech leader, will host a conference call to discuss its first-quarter 2024 financial results on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. Central Time.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced that Dr. Andrew Last, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, is planning to retire by early September of 2024.

AVITA Medical, Inc. announced an update to its expected commercial revenue for the first quarter of 2024 and reaffirmed expectations for full-year 2024 revenue at the lower end of the previously provided guidance of US$78.5 million to US$84.5 million.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that on April 10, 2024, the Compensation Committee of Mirum’s Board of Directors granted inducement awards consisting of non-qualified stock options to purchase 36,100 shares of common stock and 18,050 restricted stock units to nine new employees under Mirum’s 2020 Inducement Plan.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLX) (“Amylyx” or the “Company”) today announced interim data from the ongoing Phase 2 HELIOS clinical trial of AMX0035 (sodium phenylbutyrate [PB] and taurursodiol [TURSO, also known as ursodoxicoltaurine]) in adults living with Wolfram syndrome, a rare, progressive genetic disease impacting approximately 3,000 people in the U.S.

Lipogems announces it has completed enrollment in the ARISE I U.S. FDA IDE study, which aims to examine MicroFat versus corticosteriod injection for the treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis (OA).

Blacksmith Medicines, Inc. (Blacksmith) today announced preclinical data on its oncology program targeting flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1), a structure-specific metallonuclease that cleaves 5' DNA flaps during replication and repair, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, taking place April 5-10 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego CA.

ChromaTan is excited to announce an alliance with Batavia Biosciences, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization, for the development and integration of ChromaTan’s BioRMBTM continuous counter-current elution technology into Batavia’s AAV HIP-Vax® manufacturing platform.

The American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy® (ASTCT®) supports the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) to grant multiple myeloma patients earlier access to CAR T-cell therapy Abecma as a second-line treatment and the CAR T therapy Carvykti as a third-line treatment.