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Let’s take a look at who made a splash in the pharma and biotech world the past week.
Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics (28-7), announced it had completed a $65 million Series A financing. It was co-led by founding investor MPM Capital and Novartis Venture Fund. Joining them were Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Vertex Ventures, Longwood Fund, and Astellas Venture Management.
Gilead Sciences and its partner Galapagos NV announced results from its Phase II TORTUGA clinical trial of filgotinib, a selective JAK1 inhibitor, in adults with moderately to severely active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
Each year, Peter Drucker’s Drucker Institute generates its Management Top 250, evaluating companies based on what it calls five dimensions of corporate performance. Those five dimensions are Customer Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Development, Innovation, Social Responsibility and Financial Strength.
As we move into the last quarter of 2018, plenty of companies are looking at potential catalysts. George Budwell, writing for The Motley Fool, takes a look at three potentially high-reward biotech companies, but along with their big catalysts comes high risk.
Vantage Pharma published a report that reviewed the biopharma and medical technology trends for the year-to-date. Broadly speaking, for biotech companies, venture capital investment is up and mergers and acquisitions is down, while for the medical device company it’s the reverse.
President Donald Trump has called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file lawsuits against certain drug manufacturers whose drugs have contributed to the opioid crisis.
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies from Johnson & Johnson, confirmed topline data from its Phase III Antiretroviral Therapy as Long-Acting Suppression (ATLAS) trial of its two-drug combination for HIV.
Magnolia Neurosciences Corporation, co-founded by Accelerator Life Science Partners and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, launched with a $31 million Series A financing.
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