Bio Roundup: CRISPR Kudos, Bristol Myers’s Buy, RNAi Alliance & More
It’s October: a time of days growing shorter, leaves changing color, and phone calls in the wee hours that rouse scientists from slumber notifying them they’ve won the highest honor in their...
View ArticleBIO Launches ‘Biotech Votes’ Campaign to Encourage Registration and Informed...
Science is the way out of this pandemic—and scientific breakthroughs are on the ballot on November 3. To help you get ready for Election Day, BIO’s initiative Biotech Votes has resources to help you...
View ArticleBio Roundup: MESO’s Miss, Pfizer’s Cancer Bet, Vaccine Promise & More
Amid the bombast of Tuesday’s presidential debate, viewers caught some discussion about the response to the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In the crosstalk, the...
View ArticleBio Roundup: Grail Acquisition, Libra’s Launch, Tau Trial Results & More
In biotech, you can go home again. Four years ago, Illumina spun out cancer diagnostics startup Grail. This week, the gene sequencing giant announced it is acquiring Grail in an $8 billion cash and...
View ArticleTau-Targeting Alzheimer’s Drug from AC Immune, Roche Fails in Phase 2
An Alzheimer’s disease drug from partners AC Immune and Roche has failed a mid-stage clinical trial, adding another compound to the list of experimental therapies that have fallen short of...
View ArticleAthira CEO Kawas: Alzheimer’s Drug Aims for “Recovery of Brain Function”
The key to Athira Pharma’s approach to Alzheimer’s disease is already inside each of us: a repair mechanism that can regenerate damaged neurons. What’s needed to begin the process is a pharmacological...
View ArticleBio Roundup: SeaGen Scores, Dyne’s Debut, Microbiome Moves & More
Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel O’Day has spoken openly about acquisitions as a way to build up the company’s drug pipeline. This week, it made its biggest buy yet.The $21 billion Immunomedics acquisition...
View ArticleModerna CMO Talks COVID-19 Vaccine at Xcelerate Next Week
The Xcelerate Keynote Series has added Moderna CMO Tal Zaks to the expert lineup of speakers set to present next Monday, Sept. 21.As you likely know, Moderna is one of the front-runners in the COVID-19...
View ArticleBio Roundup: COVID-19 Pact, Gavreto Approval, Generative Biology & More
COVID-19 research efforts are often characterized as a race between companies, a description that reflects the urgency to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. The description is not quite...
View ArticleXconomy Awards On-Demand ‘Meet the Finalists’ Webcast Series Launches This Week
The 2020 National Xconomy Awards complimentary two-week, 11-part, on-demand Meet the Finalists daily webcast series starts this Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. ET. Registration is complimentary and...
View ArticleFDA Approves Blueprint Cancer Drug Targeting RET Genetic Signatures
A Blueprint Medicines drug designed to address cancer that carries a certain genetic signature now has FDA approval, the latest targeted therapy to pass the regulatory bar this year.The late Friday...
View ArticleBio Roundup: Pharma M&A, AbbVie’s Cancer Bet, Biofourmis Bucks & More
Labor Day is just around the corner and many people are looking forward to a last chance to celebrate the waning days of summer. But ahead of the holiday weekend, biopharmaceutical companies were hard...
View ArticleEarly Bird Sale for Xcelerate at Biotech Week Boston Ends This Friday
Don’t miss out on savings for this year’s online Xcelerate Keynote Series at Biotech Week Boston – our early bird sale ends this Friday!Speakers include:Jeff Baker – Deputy Director, Office of...
View ArticleBiotech Roundup: FDA Culpa, Tricida Trips, Freenome’s Funding & More
Among the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic: the credibility of government agencies entrusted with protecting public health.The FDA this week granted emergency use authorization for convalescent...
View ArticleFDA Adds Plasma as 2nd COVID-19 Treatment Under Emergency Guidelines
The FDA has authorized the use of plasma from people who have recovered from infection by the novel coronavirus as a treatment for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a move widely perceived as influenced...
View ArticleBio Roundup: J&J Buyout, BioMarin Rebuffed, Poseida on Hold & More
While business is historically slow in August, this month seems to be bucking the trend, just like so many other unexpected developments in 2020. Perhaps life sciences executives have been less...
View ArticleFinal Agenda Released for the Xcelerate Keynote Series at Biotech Week Boston
Presented by Xconomy, the 100% digital Xcelerate Keynote Series at Biotech Week Boston on Monday, Sept. 21 places a spotlight on life science leaders who are breaking new ground with methods and...
View ArticleBio Roundup: Seres Soars, MesoBlast Vote, Duchenne Decision & More
The road of drug development is rife with detours and disappointments but Seres Therapeutics showed this week that course corrections can work. Four years after its microbiome therapy failed in a...
View ArticleBio Roundup: A Telehealth Combo, FDA’s BCMA OK, Biogen’s Bet & More
The novel coronavirus has driven the pharmaceutical industry to upend its research priorities. Big Pharma companies are focusing on vaccine development and a slew of biotechs are testing compounds,...
View ArticleBio Roundup: Cerevel’s Shell, Thrive’s Rise, Drug Price Drama & More
The biotech IPO market is buzzing but Cerevel Therapeutics is showing that there’s more than one path to the public markets. This week the neuroscience drug developer reached a deal to merge with...
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