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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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J.P. Morgan launched its new life science-focused private equity team, Life Sciences Private Capital, to support early- and growth stage biotech companies.
Verge Genomics dosed its first patient in a Phase I trial studying VRG50635, while Stealth Bio’s SBT-272 was granted Orphan Drug designation by the FDA.
Unity announced advances in diabetic macular edema via Phase II study results, potentially allowing its recipients to return to tasks of daily living, like driving.
Johnson & Johnson announced it was acquiring all outstanding shares of Abiomed for $16.6 billion to expand Abiomed’s cardiovascular technologies and increase patient access.
In a Phase III trial, Pfizer’s RSVpreF, a bivalent RSV vaccine, protected infants against severe medically attended lower respiratory tract illness when administered during the second or third trimester.
On Nov. 16, the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drug Advisory Committee will meet to discuss the relative merits of Ardelyx’s tenapanor in chronic kidney disease.
Monday, Actinium Pharmaceuticals released promising results Monday from a Phase III trial studying its lead radiotherapy candidate, Iomab-B, for patients with relapsed or refractory AML.
The implications of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) are beginning to show as Alnylam drops the Stargardt indication for vutrisiran and Sanofi’s CEO reassures investors.
ESSA confirmed that Janssen has stepped away from a prostate cancer collaboration due to “operational recruitment challenges.”
Platform technology company Replay, based in San Diego and London, has launched Eudora, a gene therapy company targeting genetic diseases of the retina.