Patients who understand the information provided about their health are more likely to adhere to a medicine regime and feel empowered to take steps towards healthier lifestyles. To what extent are pharma companies taking the initiative? Amanda Barrell reports.
Israel approved a plan to invest 1 billion shekels ($275 million) to digitize the personal health records of its nearly 9 million citizens to help develop new drugs.
TCR2 Therapeutics Inc., an immuno-oncology company pioneering a novel class of T cell receptor (TCR)-based cellular therapies for solid tumors and blood cancers, announced today the completion of an oversubscribed Series B financing of $125 million.
Prothena Corporation plc (PRTA), a late-stage clinical biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies in the neuroscience and orphan categories, today announced a global collaboration with Celgene Corporation (CELG) through a subsidiary, to develop new therapies for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases.
Artificial intelligence company twoXAR—a specialist in separating signals from noise in data-rich drug discovery projects—has raised $10 million in a first-round financing led by SoftBank Ventures.
UNITY Biotechnology, Inc. ("UNITY"), a privately held biotechnology company developing therapeutics to slow, halt or reverse diseases of aging, announced the closing of a $55 million Series C financing.
In 2017, GlaxoSmithKline ended its partnership with Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop and market inotersen and a follow-up drug for rare diseases. After reviewing its options, Ionis has signed a worldwide license deal to Akcea Therapeutics for inotersen and AKCEA-TTR-LRx in a deal that could hit $1.7 billion. What makes this deal a bit unusual is that Akcea is a subsidiary of Ionis.
SBRI Healthcare alumni and Cambridge-based Owlstone Medical has announced that it has raised $15 million (£11 million) to drive the global commercialisation of its Breath Biopsy® platform.
Five months after its lead drug began Phase I testing San Diego-based Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc has secured $63.5 million in Series B financing.
Cancer Research UK is partnering with US biotech Ideaya Biosciences to develop small molecule inhibitors of Poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG).
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