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CSL Behring, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is acquiring Vancouver, British Columbia-based Vitaeris. The two companies inked a strategic partnership in 2017 to accelerate the development of Vitaeris’s clazakizumab. At that time, CLS Behring also had an option to acquire Vitaeris, the therapeutic, and the rest of Vitaeris’s assets.
Three months after hearing loss-focused company Akouos secured $105 million in a Series B financing round, the Boston-based company is eying an initial public offering valued at about $100 million.
Shares of Gilead Sciences jumped in pre-market trading this weekend following reports that the company has been approached by U.K. pharma giant AstraZeneca regarding a potential merger.
When the transaction is completed, the combined company is expected to have about $200 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at closing.
Roche hopes to advance the development of its own nanopore sequencer, which would use a new approach combining electronic and biological components to sequence DNA quickly and at low cost.
Two years after Germany’s Fresenius Medical Care walked away from a 2017 $4.3 billion deal to acquire Akorn Pharmaceuticals, the company has filed for protection under U.S. bankruptcy laws as it attempts to restructure for a potential sale.
Xenotransplant company eGenesis snapped up a key manufacturing partner ICBiotec in order to vertically integrate its xeno-organ production capabilities.
Petros will be helmed by Charles S. Ryan, who currently serves as chief executive officer of Neurotrope.
Legend Biotech, a clinical stage oncology biotech company, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.
“It is the right time to have an excellent fully integrated, patient-focused biotechnology organization like PTC Therapeutics take over the late-stage development of CNSA-001 so that this promising compound becomes available to patients in the near future,” said Jonathan Reis, president and chief executive officer of Censa.