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Fueled by advances in biomarkers, brain mapping, and AI, investment in neuro and CNS innovation shows no signs of slowing, even amid costly setbacks. BioSpace spoke to investors at JPM26 to get their take on recent bets in new therapies and neurotech.
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Henry Gosebruch, who has $3.5 billion in capital to deploy, is thinking broad as he steers the decades-old biotech out of years of turmoil.
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.
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Merck announced that Frank Clyburn, executive vice president and president of human health, will be leaving the company on February 1, 2022.
Biopharma and life sciences companies made numerous appointments this week to boards and executive teams. These Movers & Shakers will position the companies for future growth.
Laurence F. Doud III, the former chief executive officer of Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc. (RDC), one of the 10 largest pharmaceutical distributors in the United States, ignored what U.S. prosecutors have called “serious red flags” surrounding the sale of opioid drugs.
Psychedelic-focused drug company Eleusis is merging with Silver Spike Acquisition Corp. II, a special purposes acquisition company, and heading to the Nasdaq with a combined enterprise value of $446 million.
As part of a company-wide workforce reduction, it will cut its employee headcount by at least 25% by the end of the year, and 50% of its senior management team are leaving the company.
World tennis superstar Novak Djokovic reportedly has an 80% stake in QuantBioRes that’s currently working on finding a treatment, not a vaccine, for COVID-19.
The funds will be used to advance the firm’s precision oncology research efforts and pipeline, particularly those involving the creation of alteration-specific therapies.
ImmPACT Bio provided an optimistic update on a Phase I clinical study evaluating its CD19-CD20 bi-specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy.
Such a deep, data-driven approach is enabling precision medicine, in particular, which is expanding from oncology to autoimmune diseases and other conditions.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.