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The late-stage miss is “surprising,” Stifel analysts said, given that Wainua’s mechanism of silencing transthyretin protein expression has previously proven effective.
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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.
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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An investigation into the estrogen-brain link will be led by the Tulane Brain Institute’s multidisciplinary team, whose expertise spans across the pharmacology, physiology and molecular biology industries.
The FDA has a full PDUFA calendar for the second half of March for New Drug Applications and Biologics License Applications. Here’s a look.
Across a range of indications, COVID-19-related and non-COVID-19-related, there was plenty of clinical trial news last week.
The discovery of a unique, inheritable resistance to Ebola infection has inspired the development of therapeutics that may not only be effective against Ebola but against COVID-19, as well.
Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. has unfortunately announced that it will move to discontinue one of its promising T cell engager biologics, HPN424.
Cambridge Crossing will enable innovative drug discovery platforms for chemistry, protein engineering, structural and synthetic biology, among other key modalities.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has hampered Ukrainian research to develop new treatments for infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and increased the risk of spreading virulent pathogens.
The drop in value has prompted MorphoSys to make drastic changes, such as discontinuing its U.S. operations and abandoning several pipeline projects.
The Orphazyme board of directors decided to cut 50% of its current global staff count after carefully considering its financial state.
The death toll related to COVID-19 is more than 6 million, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard, but it has long been suspected that the toll is significantly higher.