Alloy Therapeutics Inc. has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Biogen Inc. for the use of Alloy’s Anticlastic ASO platform to accelerate the development of innovative oligonucleotide therapeutics.
Biogen Inc. hardly blinked at the competition faced by Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. as the two companies sealed a deal whereby the former has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of the latter for $41 each, or about $5.6 billion.
Stoke Therapeutics Inc.’s speeded-up timeline for zorevunersen, the antisense oligonucleotide in development with Biogen Inc. as a first-in-class potential disease-modifying treatment for Dravet syndrome, put the rare, severe form of lifelong epilepsy in the spotlight. The news involved completion of enrollment and a phase III data readout from the Emperor study, as officials said signups of 150 patients are expected in the second quarter of the year, which puts the study on track for data in mid-2027.
Biogen Inc. and Vanqua Bio Inc. have announced a license agreement granting Biogen exclusive worldwide rights to Vanqua’s preclinical oral C5aR1 antagonist with the potential to address a broad range of inflammatory disorders.
In a deal that could top $2 billion, China-based Innocare Pharma Ltd. licensed the exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights to the BTK inhibitor orelabrutinib to Zenas Biopharma Inc. for multiple sclerosis and other indications aside from oncology.
In a deal that could top $2 billion, China-based Innocare Pharma Ltd. licensed the exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights to the BTK inhibitor orelabrutinib to Zenas Biopharma Inc. for multiple sclerosis and other indications aside from oncology.
Three-year-old Areteia Therapeutics Inc. hit the primary endpoint in its Exhale-4 phase III study of dexpramipexole for eosinophilic asthma, bringing the oral small molecule one step closer to the U.S. market, where it could challenge currently approved injectable anti-IL-5/5R biologics.
Biogen Inc.’s IND application for BIIB-142 has been accepted by the FDA. BIIB-142 is a degrader of IRAK-4 that Biogen intends to explore for therapeutic use in patients with autoimmune diseases.