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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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There is little doubt that CRISPR gene editing is and will continue to revolutionize biology and medicine. The Nobel Committee confirmed their belief in that by awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their discovery and development of CRISPR.
Michael Haas, Medasource’s Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Vertical Director, describes the company as a “national healthcare consulting and project services company.”
In his resignation, Bright said that the Trump administration “ignores scientific expertise, overrules public health guidance and disrespects career scientists.”
Visible Genomics, a Chicago-area genetics testing company and founders of a non-invasive genetic eye test that determines a patient’s likelihood of contracting Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), announced today that it has appointed Dr. Barry Eiden, Dr. Steven Ferrucci, Dr. Alan Glazier, and Dr. Treacy Adamo to its board of clinical advisors.
The probability of dying from COVID-19 depends more on age than gender, race or ethnicity, according to the first U.S. statewide random sample study of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and fatalities.
A few days ago, CNBC reported that five patients, three in Moderna’s and two in Pfizer’s Phase III trials, had experienced more severe, although transient side effects.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for October 6, 2020.
Grace Wei, Ph.D., who founded Encellin in 2016 with co-founder Crystal Nyitray, Ph.D., shared some of her lessons during a recent Innovation Centre Denmark, Silicon Valley presentation for would-be biotech entrepreneurs.
Scientific luminary and MacArthur Fellowship winner Kevin Eggan, Ph.D. will lead early-stage research at rare disease-focused BioMarin.
Together, the university and AVROBIO will look into an investigational lentiviral gene therapy for mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II), or Hunter syndrome.