Rising from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland was science that Roche Holding AG's Genentech Inc. could not pass up, so it struck a deal with Convelo Therapeutics Inc. to discover and develop remyelinating medicines for patients with neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
Some new investors pitched in to Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s $121 million series C financing, adding to the industry's vision of the importance of AI and machine learning.
Macrogenics Inc. is taking a further step into Asia as it joins with I-Mab Biopharma (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. in a collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize enoblituzumab, an immune-optimized, anti-B7-H3 monoclonal antibody.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc's acquisition of Redx Pharma plc's pan-RAF inhibitor program for treating RAF- and RAS-mutant tumors was rocket fuel for Redx's stock (AIM:REDX), which closed 108% higher than it opened, offering some relief for the struggling company.
Altimmune Inc. will acquire Spitfire Pharma Inc. and its lead candidate, SP-1373 (to be renamed ALT-801), a GLP-1/glucagon receptor co-agonist for treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Positive data from one clinical trial evaluating lumateperone in patients with bipolar disorder wasn't enough to lift Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc.'s stock Monday as another trial's failure with the same drug severely dampened the price of shares, while analysts took the long, more optimistic view.
The FDA placed a clinical hold Wednesday on a phase I trial by Unum Therapeutics Inc. after a patient experienced serious adverse events that included grade 3 neurotoxicity and cytomegalovirus infection, and grade 4 respiratory distress.
Boston Biomedical Inc. shuttered phase III study Canstem111P of napabucasin for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, adding to the list of studies that have fallen in pancreatic cancer.
One of Korea's largest pharmaceutical companies, Yuhan Corp., and German giant Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (BI) have signed a collaboration and license agreement to develop a first-in-class dual agonist to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and related liver diseases, following a similar path trod by other companies.
Korea's largest pharmaceutical company, Yuhan Corp., and German giant Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (BI) have signed a collaboration and license agreement to develop a first-in-class dual agonist to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and related liver diseases, following a similar path trod by other companies.
