Vividion to receive $101 million in upfront payment, including equity investment Collaboration utilizes Vividion's unique proteome-wide ligand and target discovery platform
Needle-free drug injection company PharmaJet is close to completing a $5 million fundraising round of financing that would fund the production of 5 million syringes to deliver the polio vaccine.
TESARO, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRO), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has entered into a clinical collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to evaluate the combination of the PD-L1 antibody atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ®) and TESARO’s PARP-inhibitor ZEJULA® (niraparib) in patients with metastatic bladder cancer.
Eli Lilly’s Verzenio has been given another green light in the US for breast cancer, significantly expanding the drug’s treatment scope.
Viela Bio announced today that it has incorporated as an independent, inflammation - and autoimmunity - focused biotechnology company after spinning out from MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca. Viela Bio will primarily focus on developing medicines for severe autoimmune diseases by targeting critical pathways that are the root cause of the diseases.
Whatever the long-term future for life sciences, in house lawyers and their business counterparts as well as outside advisors who are able to navigate the convergence of business and legal issues surrounding the life sciences and technology industries will have a competitive advantage over those who ignore the parallel convergences that are taking place, continuing to focus instead on life sciences and technology as distinct and separate fields.
Johns Hopkins researchers have invented a new class of immunotherapeutic agents that are more effective at harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer. Their approach results in significant inhibition of tumor growth, even against cancers which do not respond to existing immunotherapies used in the clinic. In collaboration with Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence for drug discovery, the team reports their results this week in Nature Communications.
Gilead’s Kite is linking with Sangamo Therapeutics in a collaboration that aims to develop next-generation engineered cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.
Merck & Company is driving forward in its quest to develop a premier immuno-oncology pipeline. The company plunked down $394 million to acquire Australia-based Viralytics Ltd and its oncolytic immunotherapy treatments.
One-fifth of patients in a phase 1 study responded to an investigational ERK inhibitor from Merck, bolstering hopes that this type of drug could be used effectively in combination with other cancer drugs. ERK is a cell signal that is believed to drive the growth of many cancers.
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