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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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Summit Therapeutics Inc. announced that Dr. Maky Zangenah, DDS, has been named co-Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Sekhri has risen to the title of CEO at vTv Therapeutics.
Teva expects to finalize and complete the documentation needed in the coming weeks, followed by a nationwide sign-on process for states, subdivisions and Native American tribes.
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BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBIO) (BridgeBio), today announced positive interim results from PROPEL 2, a Phase 2 trial of the investigational therapy infigratinib in children with achondroplasia.
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