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There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
RXi Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Marlborough, Mass., signed a research collaboration deal with Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. They will work to develop cancer therapies using RXi’s sd-rxRNA compounds against targets involved in T-cell and NK cell differentiation.
On a dollar-for-dollar basis, vaccines have probably had a greater positive effect on global health than any other medical advancement, except possibly antibiotics. Yet as a whole, it’s an area that pharma companies tend to not spend a lot of resources on. But there are still many companies that work in this area. Here’s a look at five promising vaccines.
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.
Evotec AG and Haplogen GmbH have been long-term collaboration partners. The companies announced that Haplogen will enter into a multi-year drug discovery and development deal with Bayer AG to focus on pulmonary diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
As Novartis wrangles with the fallout from its association with Michael Cohen and the fees it paid his consulting company for access to the administration of President Donald Trump, the Swiss pharma giant has brought on a new chief ethics officer.
Western government agencies have been warning of an increase in cyber espionage from nefarious black hats and governments for years. The targets have typically been government and financial installations. But a new warning suggests that biotechnology could be a key target for cyber hackers.
Four months after acquiring GlaxoSmithKline’s rare disease gene therapy portfolio, U.K.-based Orchard Therapeutics secured $150 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round. The funds will be used to advance three late-stage programs that it gained from the deal with GSK.
Artios Pharma Limited, based in Cambridge, U.K., got a significant financial boost from Pfizer, AbbVie and Novartis through an $84 million (£65 million) Series B funding that will help advance its DNA Damage Response (DDR) programs for cancer treatments.
Japan-based Astellas plunked down nearly $109 million to snap up privately-held gene therapy company Quethera Limited and its novel treatments for glaucoma and other ocular disorders.
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