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Probiodrug AG today announces its financial results for the first six months of 2018 ending June 30.
Bone Therapeutics announces H1 results for 2018
On August 29, Chicago-based Tempus, which focuses on data analytics for molecular and clinical data, announced it had raised $110 million in Series E financing. This brought total money raised so far to $320 million. This also gave the company a valuation of $2 billion.
Top Wall Street biotech analysts are finding themselves in high demand, with staggering pay packages to go along with it, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Massachusetts in general and Boston, specifically Cambridge, is one of the two largest centers in the U.S. for biotech startups and life science companies (the other being the San Francisco Bay Area). Here’s a look at 13 Massachusetts life science companies that are showing both gains and losses—mostly gains—at the six-month mark.
Here’s a roundup of biopharma companies that have announced hiring trends since the beginning of the year.
Shares of Novo Nordisk are down about five percent this morning after the company reported an overall decline in sales during the second quarter of this year. Sales were particularly disappointing in North America.
Addressing the high cost of prescription medications will continue to be a hot-button issue as stakeholders in the industry grapple with consumer and political pressures to lower the list cost of many life-saving drugs. Dean Erhardt, chief executive officer of D2 Consulting, is floating an idea that could offer a solution to pricing concerns.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, released its second-quarter financial report and updated its business activities. Key among the announcements was the termination of a license deal with AstraZeneca for its lesinurad franchise.
This week, the Business Journals compiled a list of the 25 companies across the United States with the highest median salary for employees. According to the list, median salaries for these companies ranked from $198,000 to $495,000. Of those companies listed, more than half were in the pharma or biotech industries.
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