Bright Uro raised $23 million in Series A funds to help achieve FDA clearance for its urodynamics system and launch the product in the U.S. Should it be cleared, the system will become the first product on the market able perform urodynamic monitoring wirelessly and without a catheter, the company’s CEO said. By KATIE ADAMS Bright Uro, a Irvine, California-based startup founded in 2021, is on a mission to make urodynamic testing more accurate for clinicians, more comfortable for patients, and more efficient for clinics. On Thursday, the company announced it has raised $23 million to help it get closer to achieving those goals — the Series A funding round was led by Laborie Medical Technologies, a provider of urology diagnostic and therapeutic products. The round reflects the total amount of equity investment Bright Uro has raised since its founding, said CEO Derek Herrera. The startup also received a $2 ...
By Tyler Patchen Samsung Bioepis has inked a settlement and license agreement with Johnson & Johnson, which will settle all U.S. patent litigation and allow for the commercialization of a biosimilar for the arthritis drug Stelara, known as SB17. According to Thursday’s announcement, Samsung Bioepis’ license period for its Stelara biosimilar will kick in on February 22, 2025. However, all the other terms of the deal were labeled as confidential and no further details were revealed. The BLA for the SB17 drug is under review by the FDA. If the drug is approved, it will be commercialized by Sandoz. The issues between J&J and Samsung Bioepis come from the South Korean biotech filing a petition for an Inter Partes Review of J&J’s Stelara, or ustekinumab patent. According to a legal intelligence website lexology, Samsung Bioepis stated that the claims of J&J’s patent were invalid. Patent protections over the use of ...
By Tyler Patchen AbbVie is the latest big pharma to target the hot antibody-drug conjugate market by acquiring ImmuoGen and its Elahere ADC for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. The deal worth $10.1 billion was announced Thursday. Under the terms of the agreement, AbbVie will acquire all outstanding shares of ImmunoGen for $31.26 per share. The board of directors of AbbVie and Immunogen have approved the acquisition, which is expected to close sometime in the middle of 2024. The deal will give AbbVie access to Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx), which was granted FDA accelerated approval last year, and ImmunoGen’s follow-on pipeline of ADCs. ImmunoGen currently has several ADCs in development for treatments such as solid tumors, acute myeloid leukemia and blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, among other conditions. “The acquisition of ImmunoGen demonstrates our commitment to deliver on our long-term growth strategy and enables AbbVie to further diversify our oncology pipeline across solid ...
Pharmaceutical Executive Editorial Staff AbbVie acquiring all outstanding shares of ImmunoGen, Inc. for $31.26 per share, valuing the company at a total equity value of approximately $10.1 billion. AbbVie Inc. has announced the acquisition of ImmunoGen, Inc. along with its first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx (Elahere), which has been FDA-approved to treat platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.1 With the transaction, AbbVie acquires in cash all outstanding shares of ImmunoGen for $31.26 per share, valuing ImmunoGen at a total equity value of approximately $10.1 billion. Boards of directors for both AbbVie and ImmunoGen approved the transaction, which they anticipate closing in mid-2024, subject to approval by ImmunoGen shareholders and regulatory agencies, as well as other customary closing conditions. The pending transaction is anticipated to be accretive to diluted earnings per share starting in 2027. In a press release, AbbVie said the acquisition accelerates its commercial and clinical presence in the solid tumor ...
Don Tracy, Associate Editor Blenrep significantly extended the time to disease progression or death against existing care methods as a second-line treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. GSK announced positive results from an interim analysis of its DREAMM-7 head-to-head Phase 3 trial evaluating belantamab mafodotin (Blenrep) as a second-line treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. According to a company press release, the trial met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) and showed that Blenrep when combined with bortezomib plus dexamethasone (BorDex) significantly extended the time to disease progression or death versus daratumumab plus BorDex, an existing standard of care for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.1 “Patients with multiple myeloma need treatment options after first relapse that are efficacious, readily accessible and have novel mechanisms of action,” said Hesham Abdullah, SVP, global head, oncology, R&D, GSK, in a press release.1 “We are particularly encouraged by the potential for belantamab mafodotin ...
Eli Lilly is building on its small drug molecule portfolio with a partnership with Prism Biolab to develop and commercialise small molecules that modulate targets picked by Lilly. As part of the agreement, Prism will receive upfront payments and up to $660m based on preclinical, clinical, and commercial development milestone payments, along with royalty payments. This alliance will utilise Prism’s PepMetics technology platform to discover oral protein-protein interaction (PPI) targets. Lilly has made several moves in the last couple of years to develop small-drug molecules. Earlier this month, the company was one of the investors in Alto Neuroscience’s $45m Series C financing round, which will support Alto’s clinical programme of four small-molecule CNS candidates to treat psychiatric disorders including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Alto is expecting positive topline data from Phase II studies investigating two of the molecules, ALTO-100 and ALTO-300, in H2 2024 and H1 2025, respectively. In ...
By Kate Goodwin Pictured: Bristol Myers Squibb building in Munich/iStock, Tati Campelo Bristol Myers Squibb is upping the ante in its partnership with Avidity Biosciences. The San Diego-based biopharma announced Tuesday an expansion of its previous collaboration with BMS, with the latter paying $100 million upfront and adding up to five cardiovascular targets. With potential cumulative payments of up to $2.3 billion plus low double-digit royalties, the partnership could be a lucrative one for the RNA biopharma. The deal expansion sent Avidity’s suffering stock soaring around 35% in premarket trading. A welcome reprieve to the 72% tumble it took earlier this year. Avidity will get a $60 million upfront cash payment in addition to BMS scooping up $40 million of its stock to deliver new cardiovascular treatments utilizing the former’s antibody oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs). Avidity’s AOCs combine the targeting specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to ...
Dive Brief Medtronic said Monday it is launching a device in the U.S. designed to close the left atrial appendage (LAA) of the heart in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The treatment is intended for patients who have atrial fibrillation (AFib), an arrhythmia that can lead to stroke. The introduction of the implantable LAA clip, called Penditure, marks Medtronic’s entry into the fast-growing market for left atrial appendage closure devices, led by Boston Scientific’s Watchman franchise. Medtronic said it acquired the LAA exclusion system in August from Miami-based medical device incubator Syntheon, in a move to expand its cardiac surgery portfolio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dive Insight Medtronic’s device is the newest challenger to Boston Scientific’s Watchman in a growing market that includes Abbott’s Amplatzer Amulet treatment, which gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration in 2021, and AtriCure, whose AtriClip device was the first LAA exclusion ...
Don Tracy, Associate Editor Law aims to mitigate ongoing global drug shortages. US President Joe Biden has announced approximately 30 new actions aimed at strengthening supply chains critical to national interests. According to the White House, these actions aim to help Americans get necessary products when they need them. Furthermore, the president has invoked the Defense Production Act, enabling investment in domestic manufacturing of essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and critical inputs that have been deemed as essential to the national defense.1 “And today, we’re coming together to ask a simple question: What’s next?What can we do? What must we do to keep making progress to keep our supply chain stable and secure in the long term, to keep preserving that breathing room—that little bit of breathing room for American families for the season to come, no matter what challenges we face,” Biden said during a speech delivered yesterday.2 Earlier this ...
BY JIM HAMMERAND Henry Schein (Nasdaq: HSIC)+ said today that it is working to bring its ecommerce platform back up after more problems related to its cyberattack. The medical device manufacturer and distributor said last week that its ecommerce platform and other applications were unavailable and that “the threat actor from the previously disclosed cyber incident has claimed responsibility.” Today, the company said its ecommerce platform is back online in the U.S. and was expected to be restored in Canada and Europe “shortly.” Henry Schein said it continued to take orders via alternate methods previously communicated to customers, and continued shipping products. Earlier this month, the company warned customers and suppliers that their sensitive information may have been exposed in the cyberattack. Henry Schein first disclosed the cyber security incident in October. A ransomware gang known as BlackCat/ALPHV later said they encrypted the company’s systems and stole 35 TB of ...
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