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BioWorld - Saturday, September 30, 2023
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Opportunities in China, India Have Legal, Regulatory Hurdles

Nov. 10, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Western biopharmaceutical companies hoping to capitalize on opportunities in the emerging China and India markets through collaborations and partnerships should be prepared to deal with potential legal and regulatory challenges related to intellectual property (IP), accounting and import-export standards.
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Quanticel, Celgene and Versant Ink $45M Cancer Collaboration

Nov. 7, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Quanticel Pharmaceuticals Inc., a fledgling, privately held San Francisco biotech, Celgene Corp., of Summit, N.J., and California venture capital firm Versant Ventures have agreed to a 3.5-year, $45 million "build to buy" cancer drug collaboration.
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Medivation Shares up 140% On Positive MDV3100 Results

Nov. 4, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Medivation Inc. stock doubled and then some following an announcement by the San Francisco-based biotech and partner Astellas Pharma Inc., of Tokyo, that results from an interim analysis of the Phase III AFFIRM trial of MDV3100 in men with advanced prostate cancer were so positive that the independent data monitoring committee recommended the trial be stopped and MDV3100 offered to the men who received placebo.
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No SPA for Cabo Phase III in CRPC; Exelixis Plummets

Nov. 2, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Exelixis Inc.'s stock plummeted 40.2 percent Tuesday following the South San Francisco biotech's announcement that it was unable to secure a special protocol assessment (SPA) from the FDA for its pivotal Phase III XL184-306 trial of cabozantinib (cabo) in end-stage castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).Exelixis said it has stopped pursuing the SPA and plans to initiate the '306 trial by the end of 2011 with pain as the primary efficacy endpoint, to be followed in the first half of 2012 by the Phase III XL184-307 trial to evaluate overall survival time.
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Omeros Goes Down Hard After Blowing Out ACL Trial

Oct. 31, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Omeros Corp. went down hard following news that the Seattle-based company's lead candidate OMS103HP did not meet endpoints in Phase III trials evaluating its ability to improve postoperative joint motion and function and reduce postoperative pain in patients who'd undergone arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery.
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Comeback Continues with Palatin's $21.1M Offering

Oct. 31, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Palatin Technologies Inc. continued its comeback efforts by pricing an underwritten public offering of 23 million units of stock and warrants at $1 per unit, about 4 percent less than Wednesday's closing price. The offering is expected to net about $21.1 million – enough to get the company through the end of 2012 – with proceeds intended for a Phase II trial of bremelanotide for female sexual dysfunction, development of PL-3994 for asthma and development of new peptides for sexual dysfunction.
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Vertex Rings its 1st Profit Bell After Incivek's 3Q Surge

Oct. 31, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. reported its first-ever profitable quarter built on better-than-expected sales of hepatitis C drug Incivek (telaprevir).
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Benlysta Sales, New Guidance Send HGSI Shares Down 22%

Oct. 27, 2011
By Tom Wall
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A trifecta of investor-unsettling news sent Human Genome Sciences Inc.
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Amgen Furloughs 380, Shifts Resources to Late-Stage Programs

Oct. 21, 2011
By Tom Wall
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Amgen Inc. will lay off about 380 employees at several R&D sites and shift resources to several late-stage programs. The furloughs, effective Dec. 30, involve about 2 percent of the giant biotech's roughly 17,600 employees worldwide.
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Topica Raises $27M Series B For Nail Antifungal Trial

Oct. 19, 2011
By Tom Wall
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There's a lot of toenail and fingernail fungus among us, enough that Topica Pharmaceuticals Inc., has raised $27 million in a Series B financing to support a Phase IIb/III trial of the privately held Palo Alto, Calif.-based biotech's luliconazole topical antifungal agent for treatment of onychomycosis.
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