Heather McKenzie

Heather McKenzie

Senior Editor

Heather McKenzie is a professional journalist with more than five years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Since joining BioSpace, she has written more than 200 features and breaking news articles with a particular focus in neuroscience and gene therapy. She has also traveled internationally to cover global biotech hubs such as Israel. In previous roles, she has covered current affairs, sports, education and politics. She previously spent eight years as a senior content producer for executive-level business conferences in the pharma/biotech, legal, energy and business strategy sectors. In her free time, Heather enjoys creative writing, spending time with family and playing with her energetic Russian Blue cat Roofus. She hails from Toronto and has also lived in Chicago and Chesapeake, Virginia. You can reach her at heather.mckenzie@biospace.com.

There is a noted discrepancy between the price the U.S. government has agreed to pay Merck for the drug and the actual manufacturing costs.
Clinical trials have demonstrated that intermittent apomorphine injections provide rapid and effective relief from sudden, unexpected “off” periods brought on by primary Parkinson’s medicine, levodopa.
Wanting to find out what is fueling the trend, BioSpace solicited the perspectives of a couple of executives who chose the SPAC route.
QurAlis’ first piece of the puzzle is a protein called stathmin-2, which is encoded by the STMN2 gene.
Scientists are making progress toward a vaccine that could help protect against deadly overdoses.
Merck will acquire Acceleron for the expected $180 per share in cash for an approximate total equity value of $11.5 billion.
EDIT-101 targets a disease-causing mutation in the CEP290 gene that causes degeneration in ocular photoreceptor cells, which are critical for normal vision.
The announcement came following independent FDA analyses of inspections conducted at the two CROs in November 2019.
The news sparked a mini-surge in shares of I-Mab, which were up 7.8% in pre-market U.S trading on September 28.
Biomolecular condensates could hold the key to unlocking a number of neurological diseases that have baffled researchers the longest.
Anji will use the new funds to advance its two late-stage clinical programs in metabolic disorders and propel its oncology pipeline into the clinic.
Avanir is developing its future leadership from within through a program it calls “Leading at Avanir,” which focuses on emotional intelligence and situational leadership components.
The rumors had already been percolating as Acceleron’s stock has risen over the past 10 days from $130-a-share in mid-September to $167.65 as the market closed on Friday.
The analysis showed a 52-week glucose remission rate of 65.2% among the 69 patients being followed.
Capricor announced positive final data from the HOPE-2 trial of its drug candidate. It showed a slowing of disease progression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.