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Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Chief Executive Officer Craig Thompson has resigned from the boards of directors at Merck and Charles River Labs as the cancer center continues to be scrutinized for its ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
GO Therapeutics, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., signed a licensing deal with Swiss-based Roche to develop antibodies for cancer.
VelosBio raised $58 million in a Series A financing. It was co-led by Arix Bioscience, which committed $11 million, which will give them an 11.2 percent ownership stake, and Sofinnova Ventures.
Earlier this month, Novo Nordisk announced it was laying off 400 staffers in Denmark and China. Today, Reuters reports that the Danish company plans to lay off about 250 people in the United States.
Swiss-based Roche announced it is buying UK-based Tusk Therapeutics in a deal that could hit $758 million (U.S.).
Eli Lilly just signed a license deal with Tokyo’s Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. for OWL833, Chugai’s oral non-peptidic GLP-1 receptor agonist. It is Phase 1-ready being evaluated for type 2 diabetes.
Thomson Reuters recently announced their list of the top 100 most diverse and inclusive organizations. In the top 50 of the list there are 10 biopharma and medical device companies. Let’s take a look.
Recently, BioSpace posted a question on its website, under the heading, “We Want to Hear from You! Top Life Sciences Trends.” Let’s take a look at the five trends survey participants mentioned.
This morning, Genentech released results of its Phase III IMpower 133 trial that showed treatment with Tecentriq plus chemotherapy helped people with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer live significantly longer than with chemotherapy alone.
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