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March 22, 2013

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Passage of Spending Bill Gives FDA Access to New User Fees

Halfway into fiscal 2013, the FDA is finally looking at a budget that allows it to use the new and increased user fees that were approved as part of PDUFA V last year. Read More

Bluebird Bio, Celgene Hatch Gene Therapy Collaboration

Privately held gene therapy company bluebird bio soared to new heights in a discovery, development and commercialization deal with big biotech Celgene Corp. to use its technology to genetically modify a patient's own T cells to target and destroy cancer cells. The multiyear R&D collaboration has the potential to generate multiple products based on the modified cells, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. Read More

PDAC Weighs Risks, Benefits of Implantable Buprenorphine

Safety concerns were front and center at Thursday's meeting of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) reviewing Titan Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s application for Probuphine, an implantable device delivering a steady dose of buprenorphine for up to six months for opioid dependence. Read More

Enanta Raises $56M in IPO; Soars on First Day Trading

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) player Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. priced a $56 million initial public offering (IPO) and received a warm welcome from Wall Street, as its newly listed shares shot up 22.7 percent on its first day of trading. Read More

Other News To Note

• Medivir AB, of Huddinge, Sweden, said it will divide its R&D organization into two parts, Discovery Research and Development, and said the research organization will be led by Richard Bethell. Read More

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Clinic Roundup

• Bioheart Inc., of Sunrise, Fla., said it secured sufficient funding to begin the Phase I ANGEL safety and efficacy trial of LipiCell (adipose-derived stem cells) in congestive heart failure. Read More

Pharma: Other News To Note

• Astellas Pharma Inc., of Tokyo, and Nagasaki University signed a collaborative research agreement to discover new drugs for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) caused by dengue virus. Read More

AAN Roundup

• BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., of New York, reported some of the final results from a clinical study evaluating its NurOwn technology in 12 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Read More

Pharma: Clinic Roundup

• LEO Pharma UK, of Princes Risborough, UK, reported that data published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dermatology demonstrated the long-term effectiveness of Picato (ingenol mebutate) in treating actinic keratosis (AK), a leading cause of nonmelanoma skin cancer. Read More

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