Amgen Inc. has swooped on two European cancer specialists, buying Dark Blue Therapeutics Ltd. for up to $840 million plus royalties, and sealing a $618 million license agreement with Disco Pharmaceuticals GmbH for rights to a novel cancer cell surface target.
The chaos Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy has injected into the U.S. vaccine market could have long-term consequences as vaccine makers reevaluate business decisions and pipelines.
Securing a second major partnership with Sanofi SA – this time worth a potential $2.56 billion – Earendil Labs will provide its AI-driven discovery platform to find new therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Scientists at Healzen Therapeutics Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have described GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has disclosed antibody-drug conjugates consisting of antibodies covalently linked to antitumor drugs through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Crescent Biopharma Inc. has announced regulatory clearances of IND applications for CR-001 (SKB-118), a PD-1 x VEGF bispecific antibody, and CR-003 (SKB-105), an integrin β-6 (ITGB6)-targeted antibody drug-conjugate (ADC), both being developed for the treatment of advanced solid tumors.
Ernexa Therapeutics Inc. has successfully completed a pre-IND meeting with the FDA, setting a pathway toward submitting an IND and initiating a first-in-human trial for the treatment of ovarian cancer, expected in the second half of this year.
Ascentage Pharma Group International has obtained IND approval from the FDA for its BTK-targeted protein degrader APG-3288. A phase I study will be conducted in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies.
After raising $292 million in its Hong Kong IPO, AI discovery and development biotech, Insilico Medicine, signed an R&D collaboration with French pharma Servier SA valued at $888 million to discover and develop innovative oncology therapies by combining Insilico's AI-driven drug discovery platforms with Servier's global expertise in cancer drug development.
Securing a second major partnership with Sanofi SA – this time worth a potential $2.56 billion – Earendil Labs will provide its AI-driven discovery platform to find new therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
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