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Today's Rundown Gilead, Sangamo strike $3B off-the-shelf CAR-T deal Bleeding cash, Achillion to cut 20% of workforce GW cannabinoid drug fails midphase epilepsy trial [Sponsored] Optimizing Humanized Model Selection for Enhanced Preclinical Immunotherapy Assessment Gut-brain biotech Kallyope ramps up, bags $66M series B Pfizer’s John Davis splashes into biotech as Magenta CMO Deal-hungry Takeda forges another R&D alliance Pressure is on, sponsors. AllTrials to shame delayed clinical trial results reporting Regeneron vision drug Eylea sees upward tick in unexplained side-effect cases Featured Story | | | Thursday, February 22, 2018 Gilead’s Kite has struck a $3 billion deal to access Sangamo Therapeutics’ zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology. Kite will use the ZFN gene editing platform to create next-generation, off-the-shelf CAR-T therapies to cement its position as a long-term front-runner in the growing cell therapy space. |
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Top Stories Thursday, February 22, 2018 Months after losing its hepatitis C collaboration with Janssen, Achillion is reducing its workforce by 20% in a bid to save cash. Thursday, February 22, 2018 GW Pharmaceuticals’ GWP42006 has failed to outperform placebo in a phase 2a focal seizure trial. The setback wiped 5% off GW’s stock and dented the prospects of the cannabidivarin candidate. Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Tumor-bearing humanized models are vital preclinical platforms for assessing human-specific immunotherapies. Review immediately transferable humanized model strategies for accelerating immunotherapy drug discovery programs. Thursday, February 22, 2018 Columbia University spinout Kallyope launched back in 2015 with $44 million and a mission: to understand how the gut communicates with the brain and discover therapeutic targets. Now, with another $66 million in the bank, the biotech plans to advance its pipeline programs and identify new candidates. Wednesday, February 21, 2018 John Davis, who headed early clinical development at Pfizer, joined Magenta Therapeutics as chief medical officer. Thursday, February 22, 2018 Takeda has added another early-stage research partnership as it reboots its R&D operations, this time teaming up with two Seattle-based academic centers in a project focused on its key targets of cancer, gastrointestinal disease and neurological disorders. Thursday, February 22, 2018 Clinical trial sponsors who fail to report study results on time to clinicaltrials.gov are now put under public scrutiny, thanks to a new online tracker devised by clinical trial transparency advocacy project AllTrials. Thursday, February 22, 2018 Regeneron eye drug Eylea has been a hit on the market for years. But now, the number of patients experiencing a rare side effect is climbing, and doctors don’t know why. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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