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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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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and BioNTech have inked a strategic collaboration to combine BioNTech’s BNT111 FixVac product candidate and Regeneron and Sanofi’s checkpoint inhibitor Libtayo (cemiplimab) for the treatment of melanoma.
As usual, there was plenty of clinical trial news last week. Here’s a look.
Cerevel Therapeutics, which spun out of Pfizer two years ago, entered into a business combination deal with Arya Sciences Acquisition Corp II, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Perceptive Advisors.
GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi struck a $2.1 billion deal with the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program to supply an initial 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by the two companies.
As Moderna launched its Phase III clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine this week, a member of the company’s board of directors, Elizabeth “Betsy” Nabel, resigned to avoid any conflict of interest.
Genomic medicine company Sangamo Therapeutics announced today that it has entered a global licensing collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop and commercialize gene regulation therapies for three neurodevelopmental targets, including autism spectrum disorder.
A multi-omics, multi-algorithm approach will unleash a new wave of understanding around Alzheimer’s disease and diagnosis, that in time, will make precision diagnostics practical, speakers predicted at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2020.
Biopharma and life science companies strengthen their leadership teams and board with these Movers & Shakers.
As the world continues to navigate through the coronavirus pandemic, many biopharma companies are surging ahead with job creations. Check out these companies that have made recent job expansion announcements.
The vaccine was developed by Preston Estep, a former graduate student of Harvard University geneticist George Church.