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Robert Mahley, founder and president of Gladstone Institutes, an internationally-recognized expert on heart disease, cholesterol metabolism and Alzheimer’s disease, is launching a biotech company to focus on Alzheimer’s disease. The company is called GABAeron.
Sirion Biotech International threw a Bavarian-themed grand opening party at the Forsythe Institute on Feb. 1. The new headquarters are in Cambridge, Mass and currently have five employees.
Could Denmark become the site of Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley? The Danish government is banking on it. If it comes to fruition, the project could provide up to 12,000 life science jobs.
Seattle-based Neoleukin Therapeutics spun out of the University of Washington Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design’s research with the help of CoMotion, a collaborative innovation hub.
The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is wrapping up today and as usual, it’s host to some of the biggest names in biopharma, but it’s also a venue where tiny biotechs and even mid-size biopharma companies go to meet-and-greet with others in the industry.
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Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launched another subsidiary for Roivant Sciences. Ramaswamy will provide an update on the new company, as well as other members of the Roivant family during a Monday presentation at JPM19.
On opposite sides of the country, the two new companies tackle different methods to treat disease.
New biotech Tiburio has surged onto the scene with $31 million in financing and two novel Phase II-ready assets licensed from Ipsen Pharma. The new company, spun out of orphan drug accelerator Cydan is focused on rare endocrine diseases.
EnClear aims to develop a device that will continuously clear toxic proteins from cerebrospinal fluids.
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