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BioWorld

Oct. 22, 2018

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Bench Press: BioWorld looks at translational medicine

Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have identified a target for selectively inducing programmed cell death in latently HIV-infected T cells, opening up a new strategy for eliminating the reservoir of nondividing infected host cells that are currently the biggest barrier to an HIV cure. Read More

European Society for Medical Oncology, October 19, 2018

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Regulatory actions for Oct. 19, 2018

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Clinical data for Oct. 19, 2018

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Other news to note

Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc., of New York, reported preclinical data from its leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1 (LAD-1) and infantile malignant osteopetrosis lentiviral vector (LVV)-based gene therapy programs at the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read More

Financings

Logicbio Therapeutics Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based preclinical genome editing company, priced an IPO of 7 million shares at $10 each, for gross proceeds of $70 million. Read More

Changsheng hit with massive $1.3B penalty as China's vaccine troubles continue

HONG KONG – Scandals continue to cast a shadow on China's vaccine industry, with Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences Ltd. recently handed a hefty fine totaling ¥9.1 billion (US$1.3 billion). Meanwhile another vaccine maker, Sinovac Biotech Ltd., has been hobbled by company infighting, which has forced it to suspend production of vaccines for hepatitis A and seasonal flu, markets for which it supplied 18 percent and 12.7 percent, respectively, of vaccine production in China last year. Read More

Australia launches first oncology registry trials

PERTH, Australia – Australia is kicking off its first-ever registry-based randomized controlled trials in oncology to help clinicians select the right treatments for the right patients. Read More

Sherloc homes in on zilch, Merrimack sacking NSCLC trial; breast effort goes on

A spokesperson for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. said the company had little to add to its press release disclosing the halt of the phase II study with MM-121, but a pipeline review was promised during the third-quarter earnings call next month. Read More

TP Therapeutics' bid to tackle cancer resistance backed with $80M round

Privately held cancer drug developer TP Therapeutics Inc. said a newly completed $80 million mezzanine financing will help move its lead candidate, repotrectinib, into a potentially pivotal phase II study in early 2019. The company, which is at first targeting ROS1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and NTRK-positive solid tumors, specializes in addressing treatment resistance. Read More

Monalizumab shines in Innate's second take in SCCHN; 'striking duration of response'

DUBLIN – Innate Pharma SA has found what it claimed is a "compelling" efficacy signal for its first-in-class immune checkpoint inhibitor antibody, monalizumab, in a phase II combination trial with cetuximab in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). Read More

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