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Ounce Raises $5.2M for Housing and Care Coordination Platform

Ounce’s $5.2 million in seed funding was co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital and included participation from Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures, Wilshire Lane Capital, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta and Unite Us Co-founder Taylor Justice. By MARISSA PLESCIA Ounce, a startup that aims to “bridge the gap” between health and housing, announced Thursday that it has secured $5.2 million in seed funding. In addition, the company announced its first set of partners: AmeriHealth Caritas D.C. and National Housing Trust. Washington, D.C.-based Ounce works with payers and affordable housing properties. It has a team of community health workers who work within affordable housing properties to support their residents. The workers evaluate residents for gaps in care and offer onsite health clinics and screenings. They also help residents enroll in public benefits like Medicaid or SNAP. In addition, the workers will direct them to healthcare and social services, including scheduling primary ...
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Sanofi, Teva Ink Deal to Develop Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment

Collaboration to focus on ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/SciePro Sanofi and Teva Pharmaceuticals, a US subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., announced in a company press release plans to partner on development and commercialization of TEV’574, currently in Phase IIb clinical trials for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, two types of inflammatory bowel disease. Under terms of the collaboration, Teva will receive an initial payment of $500 million with the potential to earn up to $1 billion in development and launch milestones. “This is a new era for Teva, and our robust, innovative pipeline is key to our Pivot to Growth strategy,” said Richard Francis, president, CEO, Teva, in the aforementioned release. “This collaboration further validates the great science that Teva has to offer with our internally developed anti-TL1A. We are honored to partner with Sanofi to bring their proven capabilities, leadership, ...
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Novartis Launches Sandoz Spinoff, Creating Independent Company

Separate entity allows company to concentrate on status as focused medicines company. Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Livinskiy Novartis has officially completed the spinoff process for Sandoz, its generics and biosimilars division, with each shareholder receiving one Sandoz share for every five Novartis shares or one Sandoz American Depositary Receipt (ADR) for every five Novartis ADRs. In the future, Novartis intends to become solely a focused medicines company. “This is a truly historic moment for Novartis and Sandoz, as we begin new chapters as independent companies. With several consecutive quarters of sales growth, Sandoz starts out from a position of strength as a global leader in Generics and Biosimilars, and I am confident they are poised to deepen their impact on patients and society,” said Vas Narasimhan, MD, CEO, Novartis. “Today, after more than USD 100bn in transactions over the last few years, Novartis emerges as a fully focused innovative medicines ...
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ICHRAs Are Gaining Steam, But Employers are Still Out of the Know

ICHRAs provide employees with more choice on their health benefits. But many employers aren’t very familiar with the new insurance model, executives say. By MARISSA PLESCIA More employers are turning to Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs): the number of employers who adopted ICHRAs increased by 64% between 2022 and 2023, according to the HRA Council. Still, many employers aren’t super familiar with the model, industry experts say. ICHRAs first became available in 2020 and are an alternative to traditional group plans. They allow employers of any size — though smaller employers may particularly be interested — to provide a tax-free reimbursement to their employees so they can shop for a health plan of their choice, including through the individual ACA market on state exchanges. The amount employees are reimbursed varies based on several factors, such as age, family size or where they live. “This allows you as an employee ...
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AstraZeneca’s Forxiga meets primary endpoint for T2D

AstraZeneca has announced positive results from the T2NOW Phase III trial for paediatric patients treated with forxiga (dapagliflozin) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Forxiga is an oral sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor that lowers blood glucose levels. The drug is approved in 122 countries to improve glycaemic control in T2D patients in conjunction with diet and exercise. In the EU, paediatric patients above the age of 10 can be administered the drug after positive results from the T2GO study. Forxiga has not yet been approved for paediatric patients in the US. The T2NOW trial results showed a significant reduction in A1C, an average blood sugar marker in patients taking forxiga and metformin, insulin, or both, compared with patients receiving the placebo. Safety results in 10–17-year-olds are consistent with adult patients who take the drug. Forxiga is not the only SGLT2 inhibitor on the market. Invokana (canagliflozin) by J&J ...
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Lumicell co-founder wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The co-founder of a fluorescence-guided imaging technology firm has been awarded part of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in acknowledgement of his research into quantum dots. The Nobel Prize Committee said that Moungi Bawendi revolutionised the chemical production of quantum dots, resulting in almost perfect particles. Quantum dots are nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. They have frequently been employed in the use of medical imaging devices such as those provided by the company Bawendi co-founded, Lumicell. The Nobel Prize Committee said: “Quantum dots now illuminate computer monitors and television screens based on QLED technology. They also add nuance to the light of some LED lamps, and biochemists and doctors use them to map biological tissue.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences additionally awarded the prize to two other researchers, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov. Both of whom were pivotal in the development of quantum ...
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backAgomab’s FSCD therapy gains fast track designation from US FDA

Agomab Therapeutics has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s fast track designation for AGMB-129 to treat fibrostenosing Crohn’s disease (FSCD). Designed to inhibit ALK5 in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, AGMB-129 is an oral, small molecule GI-restricted ALK5 (TGF-βRI) inhibitor currently in clinical development. The single and multiple-dose AGMB-129 was well-tolerated at all doses in a Phase I study in healthy participants. The company has also announced the commencement of the STENOVA Phase IIa clinical study to assess AGMB-129 for patients with symptomatic FSCD. This global, placebo-controlled, multi-centre, double-blind study will assess 36 patients with symptomatic FSCD at investigational sites in Europe, Canada and the US. Subjects will be randomised to receive one of two doses of AGMB-129 or a placebo for a period of 12 weeks. Tolerability and safety of AGMB-129 in FSCD patients are the primary endpoints of the trial. The pharmacokinetics and target engagement at the ...
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What Pharma Fears Most About AI

As artificial intelligence (AI) hovers between a “buzz phrase” and marveled reality, many point to the potential the technology has in the pharma industry. While some criticize the rate at which pharma uptakes new technologies and implements them into their processes, the industry must also strike a fine balance with moving cautiously when it comes to changes due to the nature of the industry and the potential impact on patients those changes can bring. But it can’t be denied that there is a plethora of data in every part of the process of drug creation and distribution that needs to be more efficiently managed and utilized—from preclinical and R&D to manufacturing to commercialization and distribution. But perhaps one of the greatest appeals of AI is the potential it has for innovation. Andrew Hopkins, founder and CEO of Exscientia, an AI-driven precision medicine company founded in 2012, shares in this Q&A ...
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- October 6, 2023
Already Partnered With Nvidia and Eli Lilly, Iambic Adds $100M for AI Drug Discovery

Iambic Therapeutics brings together software engineers and drug-hunting scientists, all sharing the goal of using artificial intelligence to optimize properties of small molecule drugs. The startup will apply its Series B financing to a cancer drug pipeline that includes two candidates on track for the clinic in 2024. By FRANK VINLUAN Drug discovery isn’t only about finding new targets. There’s still plenty of opportunity to find better ways to hit targets that are already drugged, according to Tom Miller, CEO of startup Iambic Therapeutics. Understanding how a molecule interacts with a known disease target enables drug hunters to design molecules that could be superior alternatives for patients. Miller notes that a molecule’s ability to bind to a target protein while leaving related proteins unaffected improves its safety. It’s also important to understand how the distribution of a molecule across tissues in the body affect efficacy. Iambic’s drug discovery research employs ...
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Syneos Health Appoints Colin Shannon as CEO

Exec joins the organization with decades of biopharma experience. Image Credit: Adobe Stock Images/Mongkol Syneos Health, a biopharma clinical and commercial solutions organization has appointed Colin Shannon as CEO, effective immediately. He succeeds Michelle Keefe, who will continue her tenure with Syneos Health as a member of the executive leadership team. Shannon and Keefe will remain on the board of directors. Shannon brings decades of leadership experience driving growth at global biopharmaceutical solutions organizations. During his 14 years at PRA Health Sciences, he served in executive roles, most recently as chairman and CEO. During his tenure, he led the company through a successful IPO and subsequent sale to ICON plc., where he also served on its board of directors. “It is an honor to be tasked with leading Syneos Health at such an exciting time in its evolution,” comments Shannon. “I look forward to working with Michelle and the rest ...
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