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Early-stage financing rounds are on track to hit their lowest dollar value in years as funders continue to eschew risky investments, experts told BioSpace.
A mostly black box since emerging with more than a billion dollars in hand, Xaira Therapeutics is slowly pulling back the curtain, revealing plans to find partners and validate its pipeline.
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After debuting on the public markets with $256.3 million and raking in an additional $472 million, Veradermics has emerged as one of biotech’s biggest post-IPO standouts. CEO Reid Waldman credits the weight loss craze for establishing consumer-driven channels.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Several employees at three biopharma firms are not having a very good week, as Zealand Pharma, Merck and Orchard Therapeutics all announced job cuts.
In a meeting of the FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee, six members voted not to approve the NDA for Amylyx’s ALS candidate, AMX0035, while four voted in favor.
The FDA has rejected Cambridge, Mass.-based Akebia Therapeutics’ New D2rug Application (NDA) for vadadustat, a therapeutic for anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD).
A meeting with an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in Israel who could only speak with the assistance of a computer changed the life and direction of NeuroSense CEO Alon Ben-Noon.
Merck announced that it will be laying off 143 people from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Acceleron.
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Orchard Therapeutics announced today that it intends to focus its hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy platform exclusively on severe neurometabolic diseases and early research programs.
Biogen will await word after submitting the final study protocol for its confirmatory Phase IV ENVISION trial of Aduhelm to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A team at the University of California, San Diego developed a drug screening method to help determine why Alzheimer’s drugs fail. The system analyzes disease mechanisms in human neurons.
Researchers have developed a new form of UV light that is safe for people but decreased the level of indoor airborne microbes by more than 98% in less than five minutes.