Swiss-American startup Opna Bio SA launched this week with a $38 million series A, a Science paper on one of its targets and a pipeline stretching from preclinical to phase II.
Catalym GmbH raised €50 million (US$51.3 million) in a series C round to expand and accelerate phase IIa development of visugromab (CTL-002), a first-in-class growth differentiation factor 15 inhibitor, across a range of solid tumor indications.
As GSK plc pulls Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin) from the U.S. market, the biotech giant will watch a lot of revenue go with it. Only two weeks ago a phase III confirmatory study data for the already-approved multiple myeloma drug fell short of meeting requirements for the U.S. FDA’s accelerated approval regulations, so the agency asked GSK to take the drug off the market.
Global interest in radiopharmaceuticals is growing, and some big deals in the space have sparked interest in the last few years. Novartis AG has spent about $6 billion in acquisitions and is seen as the global leader.
Biotheus Inc. out-licensed Chinese rights to its preclinical EGFR/MET bispecific antibody, PM-1080, to Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. for ¥50 million (US$359,150) up front and up to ¥1.42 billion in future development, regulatory and commercialization milestones, plus tiered sales-based royalties.
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. Ltd. has submitted a new drug application (NDA) for its anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody toripalimab to the European Medicines Agency, which marks the first NDA filing of toripalimab in Europe.
Astellas Pharma Inc.’s zolbetuximab, a monoclonal antibody targeting Claudin 18.2, met the primary endpoint of progression-free survival in the phase III Spotlight trial in CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, according to top-line data.
Xuanzhu Pharma Co. Ltd. has described tricyclic ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Genfleet Therapeutics (Shanghai) Inc. has divulged pyridino- or pyrimido-cyclic compounds acting as GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified molecular glue degraders comprising a cereblon (CRBN) ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety covalently bound to a zinc finger protein Helios (IKZF2) ligand reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
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