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Oct. 11, 2019

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Alexion and Stealth cut elamipretide deal

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Stealth Biotherapeutics Corp. reached a deal for an option to co-develop and commercialize elamipretide for mitochondrial diseases. Read More

Reata buys top candidate rights back from Abbvie for $330M

Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to pay former partner Abbvie Inc. $330 million plus royalties to reacquire ex-U.S. development, manufacturing and commercialization rights for the Nrf2 activators bardoxolone methyl and omaveloxolone, as well as other next-generation candidates in the class. Rights to certain Asian markets for bardoxolone remain licensed to Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd. Read More

Greater than sum of parts? Pemphigus phase II bodes well for Principia phase III

With phase III trial enrollment underway and expected to enroll about 120 patients, South San Francisco-based Principia Biopharma Inc. disclosed positive preliminary data from its phase II open-label trial testing the oral Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor PRN-1008 against pemphigus vulgaris (PV). Read More

‘Strength in numbers’, ‘it only takes one’ both true for neoantigens

There’s a yin and yang to neoantigens, Alberto Bardelli told the audience at the 2019 annual conference of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Barcelona, Spain, last month. Read More

U.K. asset manager Upin pledges $1.7B over 3 years to Korean biopharma sector

HONG KONG – Upin & Co. Ltd., a fund and asset management company headquartered in London, plans to invest a total of KRW2 trillion (US$1.7 billion) over three years in the South Korean biopharma industry. The U.K. company will use a European fund and human resources network to organize the K-Bio Medical Development Fund (KBMDF), which will include funds of KRW300 billion for the first round, KRW700 billion for the second, and KRW1 trillion for the third round. Read More

Regulatory front

The FDA’s Office of Pediatric Therapeutics will hold a public workshop at the agency’s Silver Springs, Md., campus Nov. 12 to discuss pediatric patient-specific engagement in the development of clinical trial endpoints for rare diseases. Read More

Other news to note

Theratechnologies Inc., of Montreal, said its shares began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol TXTX on Thursday. Shares will continue to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TH. Read More

Financings

Nicox SA, of Sophia Antipolis, France, which is developing a nitric oxide-donating platform, said it amended its bond financing agreement with Kreos Capital and has drawn down an additional €4 million (US$4.4 million) of debt under the bond financing. Read More

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Everyone’s a winner: UCB bids $2.1B for Ra Pharma, adds to MG pipeline

DUBLIN – Shares in Ra Pharmaceuticals Inc. doubled Thursday as UCB SA made a $48-per-share bid that values the company at about $2.5 billion, or about $2.1 billion net of Ra’s cash. Read More

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