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In this episode of Denatured, you’ll be listening to Jane Hughes, President of R&D and Co-founder of Verdiva Bio, and Jon Rees, CEO and Co-founder of MitoRx Therapeutics. We’ll discuss next-generation obesity solutions tackling GLP-1’s muscle loss and adherence challenges, through innovative muscle preservation, oral administration and combination therapy.
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More than two years after an FDA rejection, AstraZeneca has given back to FibroGen U.S. and rest-of-world rights to the HIF-PH inhibitor, though the companies will maintain their contract in China and South Korea.
Amid the dual crises of worsening medicine quality and growing drug shortages, the FDA plans to increase inspections of Indian manufacturing facilities this year, Reuters reported Tuesday.
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From entering college in China at just 15 to co-inventing a drug for Bayer, Mei’s career journey has been far from average. Now CMO at Editas, he’s not done yet.
The biopharma industry in Nigeria takes a hit as GSK and Sanofi shut down their commercialization efforts in the country.
Cell and gene therapy professionals gathered in Miami last month to discuss new manufacturing approaches for these up-and-coming treatments.
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Viking Therapeutics announced Tuesday that its GLP-1/GIP receptor dual agonist helped patients lose up to nearly 15% of their weight over about three months in a Phase II study.