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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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The FDA raised doubts about the future of Ardelyx’s experimental chronic kidney disease drug tenapanor in briefing documents released ahead of a Wednesday advisory committee meeting.
Stoke Therapeutics is gearing up for a pivotal trial of its lead program for a rare genetic epilepsy disease and announced positive results from its Phase I/IIa study in children with Dravet syndrome.
Indivior PLC announced it will acquire Opiant Pharmaceuticals and its lead candidate OPNT003, an intranasal-delivered opioid overdose recovery product.
During its third-quarter earnings call Monday, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics emphasized its commitment to seek an advisory committee meeting for NurOwn in ALS.
Topline results from the Phase III SUMMIT trial showed Satsuma Pharmaceuticals’ migraine candidate STS101 did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals inked a collaboration deal with Metagenomi with the goal of adding DNA editing to its RNA-targeted technologies focused on up to four genetic targets.
MBX Biosciences secured $115 million in Series B financing to advance its pipeline of Precision Endocrine Peptides for endocrine disorders.
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Roche announced its investigational antibody gantenerumab failed to meet the primary endpoints in GRADUATE I and II - two Phase III studies in Alzheimer’s disease.
Early data from a combination of Cue Biopharma’s CUE-101 and Keytruda shows the treatment is effective in patients with recurrent/metastatic HPV16+ head and neck cancer.