Oncology Highlights – 30/07/2018

Notizia - Recent Pharma, Healthcare and Biotech Happenings

InnoCare’s Trial In China; Sanofi/GSK COV...

InnoCare Receives Go-ahead for Clinical Trial of TYK2 Inhibitor ICP-332 in China InnoCare, a biopharma firm developing novel therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today ann...

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Lilly ink deal with MiNA; Appia Bio aims for CAR-T with $52M raise; Nuvalent raises $135M; Orchard gene therapy benefits kids

Lilly, MiNA ink agreement to upregulate proteins using RNA Eli Lilly will utilise the power of MiNA Therapeutics’ proprietary small activating RNA (saRNA) technology platform to develop five novel drug candidates against diseases across the company’s core areas of focus. Eli Lilly declared a drug development ...

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Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine; Biogen/Capsigen Deal
Abingworth & Alebund’s Finacial Closing; Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Expanded Use; Biogen and Capsigen Deal

Abingworth Achieves Financial Close, Raises USD 582 Million Abingworth, a London-based venture capital firm, has announced the closing of its new Clinical Co-Development Fund 2 (ACCD 2) worth USD 582 million, however, the fund was aiming to gather USD $350 million.  Not long ago, the company also closed ...

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Pfizer hit by DMD delay & halts BCMA trials; Sarepta’s drug shows promise in Phase II; Human organ chips enable COVID-19 drug repurposing; AbCellera takes new antibody into clinic

Pfizer suffers a DMD delay and halts BCMA trials amid safety woes  Pfizer has paused after seeing three cases of peripheral neuropathy in an early-stage study, enrollment in a critical analysis of its anti-BCMA bispecific antibody. Big Pharma shares news with details of delays to the start of the US part of...

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MedTech Industry Roars Back as FDA Approvals Soar

Zimmer Biomet Receives FDA Approval for its Rosa System On 20 April 2021, Zimmer Biomet received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Rosa Partial Knee system for robotically-assisted partial knee replacement surgeries. This is the new edition to Zimmer Biomet's Rosa Robotics platform, which comprises the Rosa Knee syst...

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Arch Oncology scores $105M; Abbott’s new coronary imaging platform; Lilly scraps IL-23 psoriasis program; Biogen offer access to experimental ALS med

Arch Oncology scores USD 105 Million for anti-CD47 med in solid tumors, multiple myeloma Arch Oncology scored USD 105 million from new and old backers to expand the drug’s journey through the clinic and into new trials, having moved its anti-CD47 antibody into a phase 1/2 study.  Arch tests the drug alon...

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Vertex leads in CRISPR Therapeutics deal; Update for Phase 2 clinical trial of KVD824; Ovid dumps lead program; Virta Health pulls in $133M

Vertex leads in CRISPR Therapeutics partnership with USD 900 Million upfront Vertex has boosted a deal with CRISPR Therapeutics to USD 900 million upfront as the companies compete against bluebird bio to the market with a novel gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia called CTX001. B...

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Adagio Raises $336 M; Lyndra’s Schizo Trial; BMS Opdivo for Gastric Cancer; Anixa Ovarian Cancer CAR-T Therapy

Adagio Raises $336 Million to Advance Covid-19 Antibody Treatment An antibody startup Adagio Therapeutics announced the completion of a $336 million Series C financing round. The proceedings from the financing round will be used to augment the development of the company’s lead program developing treatments for C...

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Lilly’s Retevmo shows promise; CeQur tanks up on $110M in funding; Repertoire secures $189M; Recursion sets terms for $306M IPO

Lilly’s RET inhibitor Retevmo exhibits early promise in new cancer types The phase 1/2 LIBRETTO-001 trial enrolled 32 patients with 12 unique RET fusion-positive advanced cancer types, comprising pancreatic, colon, breast and salivary cancer, with 62.5% affected by gastrointestinal tumours. Across all 32 pati...

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Taysha Acquires Rare Disease Gene Therapy For $5.5 M; AZ’s Farxiga Fails In COVID-19 Study; Sanofi To Strengthen Its Vaccines Manufacturing Capacities

Taysha takes charge of a Rare Disease Gene Therapy for $5.5 M  Taysha Gene Therapies announced the acquisition of exclusive global rights to TSHA-120 from a leading patient advocacy group for an upfront payment of USD 5.5 million.  TSHA-120 is an intrathecally dosed AAV9 gene therapy designed to tre...

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The gene therapy in rare diseases market has drastically changed recently due to scientific advancem.....

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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) is a rare hereditary disease characterized by the accumulation of.....

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