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IRBM signs collaboration agreement with Merck & Co., Inc, Kenilworth, NJ, USA to advance peptide therapeutics
Late-stage trial results show that a combination of Bavencio (avelumab) and Inlyta (axitinib) significantly improved progression-free survival in previously untreated patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Urovant Sciences, a Vivek Ramaswamy company under the Roivant umbrella, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise $150 million. It will list on Nasdaq under the UROV symbol.
There is a new player in the southern California biotech industry. New venture firm Westlake Village BioPartners launched with a $320 million fund and a leadership well familiar with the ins and outs of the biotech and pharma world.
Fulcrum Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, closed on an $80 million Series B financing.
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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had a busy August. In addition to the number of draft guidance documents the agency issued during the month, the FDA has also been busy approving a number of new treatments for a variety of diseases.
Nearly two months ahead of the planned PDUFA date, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new HIV-1 treatments developed by Merck. The FDA gave the go ahead for Delstrigo, a once-per day triple combination treatment and Pifeltro, a new non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Only a month after raising $85.4 million in a Series E financing, Sutro Biopharma filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company plans to raise $75 million with the IPO.
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