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Less than six months after cutting 20% of its employees, Vedanta Biosciences has again laid off staff. According to one affected staffer, half of the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based biotech’s workforce is being cut while most of the rest are furloughed.
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It doesn’t matter how many times you have traversed Union Square; no one knows which way is north, or where The Westin is in relation to the Ritz Carlton. A Verizon outage brought that into focus on Wednesday.
Primarily known as an immunology and neuroscience company, AbbVie wanted to put the biopharma world on notice during its J.P. Morgan presentation: its oncology portfolio is underappreciated. This week, the Illinois-based company dove into the sizzling PD-1/VEGF space with a licensing deal with China-based RemeGen.
Buying vaccine biotech Dynavax was an easy choice for Sanofi despite antivaccine moves by the Trump administration.
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Atreca is reducing its staff count by over 25%, covering current employees and open roles, and revising its operating plan to reflect these cost-cutting measures.
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Several new biotech and biopharma companies are sharing their strengths to develop new treatments for high-need diseases diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cancer.
The FDA has issued special designations that could improve the lives of millions with recurrent glioblastoma or hemophilia diagnoses.
The report suggests that AbbVie’s sales will be approximately $65.7 billion within the next six years, with Roche right behind at $65 billion.
Although Bruce Goldsmith will no longer serve on the executive team, he will remain with Passage Bio for a short period as a strategic advisor to the interim CEO.
The AbbVie Immunology Scholarship provides financial support to students living with chronic, immune-mediated diseases who are pursuing higher education in the United States.
BioSpace looks at the challenges faced by the Latinx community in the life sciences, from the origins of the challenges, to educational gain and the importance of mentorship.
GSK announced that it is acquiring Affinivax for up to $3.3 billion to gain its novel class of developmental vaccines and its MAPS technology.
The initiative, a partnership between non-profit biotech company n-Lorem and Columbia University, focuses on developing personalized experimental ASO medicines for nano-rare ALS patients.