Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. walked the talk in realizing a new $630 million licensing deal with Eli Lilly and Co. for its cardiovascular and metabolic disease asset, OLX-702A (OLX-75016), rallying stock by 30% after it had largely recovered from a terminated deal with France’s Théa Open Innovation last year.
Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. walked the talk in realizing a new $630 million licensing deal with Eli Lilly and Co. for its cardiovascular and metabolic disease asset, OLX-702A (OLX-75016), rallying stock by 30% after it had largely recovered from a terminated deal with France’s Théa Open Innovation last year.
Newco Akribion Therapeutics GmbH has raised €8 million (US$8.3 million) in a seed round to develop a new and potent class of RNA-targeted CRISPR nucleases, which, rather than cleaving specific nucleic acids, can destroy every type of nucleic acid in a cell.
Newco Akribion Therapeutics GmbH has raised €8 million (US$8.3 million) in a seed round to develop a new and potent class of RNA-targeted CRISPR nucleases, which, rather than cleaving specific nucleic acids, can destroy every type of nucleic acid in a cell.
From local drug discovery to global innovation, economic uncertainty is taking a toll on China’s innovative biotech system, forcing local companies to weather unpredictable storms, investors said during the Chinabio Partnering Forum in Shanghai in September.
From local drug discovery to global innovation, economic uncertainty is taking a toll on China’s innovative biotech system, forcing local companies to weather unpredictable storms, investors said during the Chinabio Partnering Forum in Shanghai in September.
Hangzhou Sino-US Huadong Medicine Co. Ltd. and Synerk Pharmatech (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. have entered into a strategic collaboration in which the two parties will jointly develop the small nucleic acid (siRNA) drug SNK-2726.
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has gained clinical trial approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for SYH-2062 injection, a double-stranded small interfering RNA (siRNA) drug to treat hypertension.
After raising AU$40 million (US$25.9 million) earlier this year to advance lead candidate VP-001 for treating retinitis pigmentosa type 11, PYC Therapeutics is now advancing PYC-003 to the clinic for polycystic kidney disease.
In the largest collaboration of 2024, Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. entered a sprawling global licensing deal that includes a swath of clinical and preclinical candidates targeting rare genetic diseases. Under the terms, Sarepta gains access to existing and potential future compounds derived from the RNAi platform developed by Arrowhead, with the latter eligible for payments potentially exceeding $11 billion.
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