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Aiming to build a better ADC, Emergence raises $98M in series A

Dec. 7, 2021

LONDON – Europe’s latest antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) specialist, Emergence Therapeutics AG, will be going head to head with pioneer Seagen Inc.’s approved ADC, Padcev, after raising €87 million (US$97.9 million) in a series A round.

BioWorld Financings Cancer Antibody-drug conjugate Series A

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CTAD 2025: Diagnosing semaglutide’s failure in Alzheimer’s trials

BioWorld

A little over a week after announcing that the Evoke and Evoke+ studies failed to show that oral semaglutide could slow cognition decline in patients with...

Apollo’s APL-4098 shows potent antileukemic effects

BioWorld Science

Apollo Therapeutics Ltd. has developed APL-4098, a small-molecule general control nonderepressible 2 (GCN2) inhibitor for the potential treatment of AML.

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ABS-1230 controls seizures in KCNT1-driven severe epilepsy

BioWorld Science

Mutations in the KCNT1 gene produce gain-of-function effects that lead to overactivation of the potassium channel and consequent disruption of normal neuronal...