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Oct. 1, 2024

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Hands holding holographic intestine

On the magrolimab slab: Shattuck chalks latest CD47 bust in AML

Shattuck Labs Inc. opted, as one analyst put the matter, to do “the right thing early” by ending the clinical program with phase I-stage SL-172154 and shift resources to SL-325, a death receptor 3 antagonist, initially for inflammatory bowel disease, where TL1A/DR3-blocking antibodies have shown compelling monotherapy efficacy. Read More

Gritstone rolls lower with interim cancer data

Gritstone Bio Inc. has had a tough year and new interim phase II data of Granite haven’t helped. The company called the progression-free survival results “encouraging” in the ongoing phase II/III trial of its personalized neoantigen-targeting immunotherapy for treating front-line microsatellite stable colorectal cancer. Read More
Ron Renaud, CEO, Kailera

Kailera launches with $400M series A, Hengrui’s metabolic assets

In one of the top series A financings in biopharma history, new company Kailera Therapeutics Inc. emerged with $400 million raised and a pipeline of next-generation assets to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes. Read More

US strike, hurricane threaten global drug, device supply chain

Depending on how long it lasts, the dockworkers strike that hit all 14 ports on the U.S. East Coast and along the Gulf Oct. 1 could literally unload a world of hurt to patients and the biopharma/med-tech industries, as it will impact both U.S. imports and exports of life-saving drugs and technologies. Read More
Green approved stamp

Akeso scores two new China approvals

Akeso Pharmaceuticals Inc. scored two approvals from China’s National Medical Products Administration on Sept. 30 before the long Labor Day holiday – one for its PCSK9 inhibitor, ebronucimab, and the second to expand use of PD-1/CTLA4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab in unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, marking the second indication for cadonilimab in China. Read More
Illustration of bacteriophage landing on rod-shaped bacteria

Phylogeographics, phage typing combo fights antibiotic resistance

The spread of drug-resistant bacteria is a global health concern and could once again become a leading cause of mortality. The World Health Organization has flagged carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii as a top priority pathogen requiring innovative therapies for its management, which has a mortality rate of 25%-60% and caused more than 100,000 deaths worldwide in 2019. Therapy based on the use of bacteriophages (phages) to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria is one such innovative strategy. Read More

BioWorld Insider podcast: Capricor’s CEO pursues a BLA and talks rare disease

Linda Marbán, CEO of Capricor Therapeutics Inc., discusses deramiocel (CAP-1002), the company’s allogeneic cardiac-derived cell therapy, for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The company just wrapped up a visit with the U.S. FDA and is prepping to file a BLA for its treatment of the rare disease. Read More

Appointments and advancements for Oct. 1, 2024

New hires and promotions in the biopharma industry, including: Achieve, Aligos, Astronautx, Biomea Fusion, Eligo, Engeneic, Madrigal, Nxera, Omass, TME. Read More

Financings for Oct. 1, 2024

Biopharmas raising money in public or private financings, including: Aktis, Clene, Mesoblast. Poxel, Sumitomo. Read More

In the clinic for Oct. 1, 2024

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Alnylam, Anagram, Angitia, Ascendis, BMS, Bridgebio, Cereno, Cour, CSL, Enliven, Estrella, Janssen, Kezar, Madrigal, Neurobo, Ocuphire, Pop, Poseida, Rivus, Windtree. Read More

Other news to note for Oct. 1, 2024

Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: AFT, Emglev, Genentech, Hyloris, Intract, Regor, Tharimmune, Xizang. Read More

Regulatory actions for Oct. 1, 2024

Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Formycon, GE Healthcare, J&J, Kalvista, Modalis. Read More

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