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Biohaven has suffered a few setbacks in recent months, including an FDA rejection and a missed $150 million benchmark payment, but CEO Vlad Coric looked for the brighter side at JPM, specifically emphasizing a serendipitous discovery that could get the company in the obesity game.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Novo business development executive Tamara Darsow said the company is gunning for obesity and diabetes assets.
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.
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In a regulatory filing, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company indicated that it plans to “refocus its strategic priorities” and lay off 42% of its workforce.
Janssen’s Phase II study of nipocalimab for generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) shows that serum IgG levels can be used as a supportive biomarker to manage this disease.
Onxeo, Amydis, eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Freenome, Urovant Sciences and others all added new guidance and perspectives to their C-suite this week.
Six months after acquiring Kadmon Holdings, pharma giant Sanofi is closing Kadmon’s New York facility. As part of the paring down, Sanofi is also laying off 25 employees at the location.
Proceeds from the Series A will be used to further advance the company’s Kinetic Ensemble platform and accelerate its R&D pipeline.
AstraZeneca has penned a deal with Harbour Biomed for its bispecific antibody HBM7022, which is intended to eliminate tumors in oncological patients.
The deal marks the first immuno-oncology program for Jazz Pharma. With it, they are trying to become a leading oncology company. Here’s more about their success.
Retro Biosciences announced on Twitter that it is launching with $180 million in funding. Not much is known about the company, except that it indicates it is focused on the “cellular drives of aging.”
Biopharma and life sciences organizations from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
Evozyne inked a partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical to develop next-generation gene therapies for up to four rare disease targets. Continue reading for that and more collaboration news from this week.