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Biotech entrepreneur Arie Belldegrun and former Roche CEO Franz Humer are part of the credit firm’s push to provide companies with another source of funding, Symbiotic Capital announced Tuesday.
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As big pharmas including Takeda and Novo Nordisk flee the cell therapy space and smaller biotechs shutter their operations, these players are sticking around to take the modality as far as it can go.
This year has seen the approval of several first-in-class therapies for HAE, but in a fragmented space, experts question whether they will be enough to net their developers a significant share of the entrenched market.
The record-setting government shutdown was just the latest blow to the U.S. biopharma industry. When science funding becomes a casualty of political gridlock, we lose valuable talent, erode public trust and jeopardize our position as a global leader in innovation.
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Two analyses of the final U.S. data from the EMPagliflozin compaRative effectIveness and SafEty real-world study show that Jardiance® was associated with a reduction in risk of hospitalization for heart failure compared with two other classes of glucose-lowering therapies in adults with type 2 diabetes in routine care.
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Delaware Chancery Court Judge Paul Fioravanti on Tuesday ordered activist investor Carl Icahn to remove confidential information from his lawsuit against legacy Illumina board members.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have secured another FDA approval for their Casgevy Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, this time in treating transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia.
Disco Pharmaceuticals is taking to the biotech dance floor with seed funding from major players and pipeline programs in small cell lung cancer and colorectal cancer.
The biotech Tuesday announced a restructuring plan as its humanized IgG1 antibody lirentelimab failed two Phase II studies in atopic dermatitis and chronic spontaneous urticaria.
The snacks and confectionery giant has been seeking to enter the biopharmaceuticals space in recent years.
Alto Neuroscience and Kyverna Therapeutics are following in the footsteps of CG Oncology, Metagenomi and Arrivent in seeking initial public offerings this year.
Following the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and other parallel meetings in San Francisco, it’s time to reflect on some of the significant deals secured last week.
After a quiet start to 2024, the FDA is expected to decide on three applications over the next two weeks, including one for a nasal powder migraine treatment.
The agency nevertheless said that it could not definitively rule out a small risk of suicidal ideation associated with GLP-1 receptor agonists, and that it will continue evaluating the evidence.
Dropping the potential Cytokinetics buy runs contrary to Novartis’ recent dealmaking frenzy, which included the acquisition of Calypso and three research collaborations.