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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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Ginkgo Bioworks reported its 2021 financials today, and the $1.7 billion of stock-based compensation caught everyone’s attention.
Taysha Gene Therapies announced that it will focus its efforts on clinical programs targeting Rett Syndrome and giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), resulting in a 35% reduction in its workforce.
Sanofi inked a pact with IGM Biosciences that could pass $6 billion. However, Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson’s pay had a drop of about 3.7%, according to the company’s annual filing.
Myeloid Therapeutics has signed an exclusive collaboration deal with Prime Medicine to leverage both companies’ technologies and discover cancer and autoimmune diseases treatments.
The man who many consider the father of synthetic insulin treatment for diabetes, as well as a founder of modern biotechnology- Dr. Arthur Riggs - died this week at the age of 82.
San Jose-based Rani Therapeutics reported its fourth quarter and full-year 2021 financial results. The company hit major milestones this year, including the recent launch of the RaniPill High Capacity,
Several employees at three biopharma firms are not having a very good week, as Zealand Pharma, Merck and Orchard Therapeutics all announced job cuts.
A meeting with an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in Israel who could only speak with the assistance of a computer changed the life and direction of NeuroSense CEO Alon Ben-Noon.
Merck announced that it will be laying off 143 people from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Acceleron.
Orchard Therapeutics announced today that it intends to focus its hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy platform exclusively on severe neurometabolic diseases and early research programs.