Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Amarin, Astrazeneca, Bausch Health, Brainstorm Cell, BMS, China Oncology Focus, Edding, Immunomet, Navidea, RDIF, Sorrento, Triastek.
New hires and promotions in the biopharma industry, including: Antev, Aquestive, Caribou, Eli Lilly, Equillium, Gemini, Ironwood, Metrion, Novocure, Werewolf.
Chinese cancer and autoimmune specialist Innocare Pharma Ltd. raised HK$3.04 billion (US$392 million) in private placements with two Hillhouse Capital subsidiaries and Vivo Opportunity Fund to advance its pipeline, especially its core asset, the BTK inhibitor orelabrutinib.
CAJICA, Colombia – China’s Anticancer Bioscience, a company focused on developing precision oncology medicines, has raised ¥66 million (US$10.2 million) to expand its small-molecule and natural product screening libraries and move two programs into IND-enabling studies.
Avrobio Inc. said Feb. 8 that the first person dosed with AVR-RD-01, an investigational ex vivo lentiviral gene therapy from its upgraded manufacturing platform, Plato, experienced a complete clearance of the toxic substrate lyso-Gb3 in a kidney biopsy.