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After years of contraction, investors see biotech reentering a growth cycle driven by scientific progress, asset quality and renewed conviction in oncology, obesity and neuroscience innovation.
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With the biopharma industry performing better of late, analysts, executives and other industry watchers are “cautiously optimistic”—a term heard all over the streets of San Francisco at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this month.
Attendance at the Biotech CEO Sisterhood’s annual photo of women leaders and allies in Union Square doubled this year. There’s still more work to do.
After winning a surprise approval for its hereditary angioedema drug Ekterly, KalVista is confident the oral offering will capture the lion’s share of the market for on-demand use.
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Robert Coughlin announced in an open letter on Monday that he is leaving the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio) following a 13-year tenure as the organization’s president and CEO.
San Diego-based Locanabio secured $100 million in a Series B financing round that will be used to advance the company’s portfolio of novel RNA-targeted gene therapies for neurodegenerative, neuromuscular and retinal diseases.
Relay Therapeutics announced today that it has entered a global license and collaboration agreement with Genentech for the commercialization and development of RLY-1971.
If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not grant Emergency Use Authorization to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the White House will demand the resignation of FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
The COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline hit a snag that will delay the launch of a Phase III study due to an insufficient immune response in older trial patients.
It was an unusually busy week for clinical trial updates, largely because of the annual ASH meeting from Sunday December 5 through Wednesday December 9. There were also other meetings and the usual corporate updates.
AstraZeneca, which is jointly developing a COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford, plans to begin clinical trials testing its vaccine in combination with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine by the end of the year.
A Biogen corporate conference held in February at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel was initially traced to about 100 cases of COVID-19 that spread across the country. That number has grown exponentially.
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