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Today’s Big NewsJan 12, 2024 |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | 11am ET / 8am PT Join a cutting-edge conversation on January 23, 2024 with Real Chemistry and Quid as they explore how their partnership has forged a deeper understanding of patient insights. Register now. 
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| By Angus Liu As one of the first Big Pharmas to embrace antibody-drug conjugates, Roche plans to bet more on the popular cancer modality, Global Head of Pharma Partnering James Sabry, Ph.D., told Fierce. But biotechs looking for a Roche alliance must first meet an invisible bar. |
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By Zoey Becker A group of 24,000 users of Gilead's TDF-based HIV meds argue that the company knowingly shelved a safer HIV med to increase its profits. Now, Gilead will have to prove that a manufacturer can't be held liable for its development timeline of an upgraded product. |
By Conor Hale Described as a virtual microscope, the BrainSee program could be used before a PET scan or biopsies of cerebrospinal fluid, according to the developer Darmiyan. |
By Annalee Armstrong Sometimes, you have to act while the tea is hot. For Roivant CEO Matt Gline, that meant dealing out Telavant to Roche for $7.1 billion last year, even if he wasn’t quite ready to let the vant company go. |
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | 2pm ET / 11am PT Join industry experts to hear how digital collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can lay the foundation for advancing health equity, which methods can ensure that PROs are relevant for diverse populations, and what challenges and opportunities still lie ahead. Register now. 
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By Conor Hale First announced in June 2023, Illumina Ventures said the new genomics-focused funding and mentorship initiative would take over from its previous Accelerator program, while still offering new companies technical guidance and DNA analysis hardware through the sequencing giant. |
By Ben Adams Rare disease specialist BioMarin has a new CEO in Genentech’s former chief Alexander Hardy and he appears to be shaking up his commercial team as its lead Jeffrey Ajer will now leave the company by July. |
By Annalee Armstrong The biotech industry has a love-hate relationship with the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Every year, thousands gather on the Golden Gate City and battle rain, hail, floods, what have you, just to make billion-dollar deals. |
By Nick Paul Taylor Reuters and The Wall Street Journal have punctured investors’ hopes that Novartis will buy Cytokinetics. The Swiss drugmaker has reportedly backed away from the potential deal late in negotiations, deflating the biotech’s share price. |
By Andrea Park ResMed first warned in November that some of the masks used with its CPAP machines contain magnets that could potentially interfere with pacemakers, neurostimulators and other implanted medical devices. |
By Eric Sagonowsky Even as obesity and diabetes heavyweights Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk command headlines with their global manufacturing expansions, Boehringer Ingelheim is getting in on the action. |
By Kevin Dunleavy A preliminary evaluation by the FDA found no evidence that use of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly can cause suicidal thoughts, the U.S. regulator said. |
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