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Under the terms of the agreement, Bayer is paying $1.5 billion upfront and up to $500 million in various milestone payments.
With the acquisition of the Roche stake, SoftBank has become one of the company’s biggest stakeholders.
Novartis claimed the patents held by Plexxikon were invalid. Unfortunately for the company, the jury found it was unable to prove these claims.
The antibody is still being evaluated in clinical studies, with a large-scale Phase III trial expected to wrap in the second half of 2022.
The company’s technology is designed to attach any off-the-shelf antibody with any payload without the need for modification.
Genentech’s Hemlibra showed no new safety signals and continued to deliver consistent bleeding control in the final analysis of a long-term, late-stage hemophilia A study.
In its 2Q2021 Clinical Report, BioSpace highlights drugs that were greenlit for clinical studies, faced clinical and regulatory hurdles and some who saw regulatory wins.
The WHO is calling for manufacturers to cut prices and increase the availability of supplies to low- and middle-income nations to parts of the world where COVID-19 continues to surge.
bluebird bio is hitting back at Spark Therapeutics over the use of the word “spark” involving the company’s “Be the Spark” campaign against sickle cell disease.
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