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In this episode of Denatured, as part of our series on the European life sciences investment ecosystem, you’ll be hearing from Ksenija Pavletic, partner and chief commercial officer at Jeito Capital and Thierry Laugel, managing partner at Kurma Partners. We dive into France’s biotech ecosystem and what still needs to happen for more early innovation to translate into investable, scalable biotech.
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Graphite Bio announced it is voluntarily pausing the Phase I/II study of its lead candidate nula-cel in sickle cell disease.
Moderna and CytomX ink a cancer partnership.
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NovoCure’s novel cancer-fighting platform hits the mark in non-small cell lung cancer.
Metagenomi announced a Series B extension financing round led by Moderna, Leaps by Bayer and several others.
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Galmed announces positive late-stage results in biopsy-proven NASH patients.
In a recently published study, MD Anderson researchers achieved curative responses in pancreatic cancer models by targeting checkpoints in T cells and myeloid suppressor cells.