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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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PACT Pharma shared results of a first-of-its-kind trial using CRISPR technology to swap a gene in a patient’s immune cell to treat solid tumors.
At the FDA’s request, GSK has restricted the use of Zejula, a PARP inhibitor, to a specific population as a second-line maintenance treatment for ovarian cancer following updated data.
A trio of well-known biopharma executives invested $20 million in a Series A extension for San Diego’s Lipidio Pharmaceuticals.
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The FDA approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi in combination with Imjudo and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
Seagen’s Adcetris has been given FDA approval for the treatment of children aged two years and above with high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
While Biogen and Seagen made the biggest C-suite splashes this week, other companies across the biopharma industry also bolstered their leadership teams with new talent.
After six months of searching for its next chief executive, Washington’s largest biotech firm has found its match. On Thursday, Seagen named David R. Epstein as CEO.
GSK and Sanofi veteran Christopher A. Viehbacher will take over as chief executive officer for Biogen. He replaces Michel Vounatsos, whose departure was announced in May.
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics ran into another stumbling block with ALS hopeful NurOwn Thursday as the FDA issued a Refusal to File Letter for its Biologics License Application.
The FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee voted against the potential Emergency Use Authorization of the company’s COVID-19 therapeutic candidate, sabizabulin.