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Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
When Ingram became Sarepta Therapeutics’ CEO in 2017, he didn’t have a connection to muscular dystrophy, but he has developed a fierce passion for the therapeutic area. He will step aside from his role to dedicate more time to his family.
LB Pharma needed $350 million to advance a promising schizophrenia candidate at a time when the biotech markets were locked up tight. Fortunately, it wasn’t CEO Heather Turner’s first rodeo.
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Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
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Under the potential $770.5 million deal announced Tuesday, Autifony Therapeutics is licensing to Jazz Pharmaceuticals two ion channel targets associated with neurological disorders.
When given with chemoradiotherapy, Imfinzi in a late-stage non-small cell lung cancer study did not lead to significant improvements in progression-free survival versus chemoradiotherapy alone.
The Japanese biotechnology and food company has bought into the gene therapy space with its $620 million acquisition of Ohio-based CDMO and clinical-stage biotech Forge Biologics.
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Pennsylvania-based Aclaris Therapeutics will stop development of zunsemetinib after it failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase II study for rheumatoid arthritis.
The UK-based nanomedicine biotech, previously known as SomaServe, has closed its Series A with some significant biopharma names attached.