To view this email as a web page, click here

   Home

Subscribe

Advertise

 

 

 

 

February 25, 2019

Today's Rundown

Featured Story

Ipsen strikes $1.3B Clementia buyout to boost rare disease unit

Ipsen has struck a $1.3 billion (€1.1 billion) deal to buy Clementia Pharmaceuticals for its late-phase rare disease drug palovarotene. The transaction will see Ipsen hand over $1 billion upfront to acquire the retinoic acid receptor gamma agonist ahead of a filing for FDA approval.

Top Stories

Novartis pays $150M to license Akcea-Ionis cardiac disease drug

Novartis has taken up its option to license antisense oligonucleotide TQJ230, triggering a $150 million payout that Akcea Therapeutics will share with Ionis Pharmaceuticals. The decision sets Novartis up to test the RNA-targeting drug in a phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes trial.

Autolus taps Vineti to help deliver personalized cell therapies

Autolus has a lot of CAR-T candidates heading for clinical trials and has teamed up with software company Vineti to try to bring them to market more safely and efficiently.

[Sponsored] Rise in Targeted Therapies Drives Need for Flexible, Small-Volume Manufacturing

Biologics have experienced steady double-digit growth over the last 15 years and now comprise slightly more than a quarter of all New Molecular Entity (NME) FDA approvals.

Mallinckrodt inks photopheresis R&D pact with specialist Transimmune

Mallinckrodt is joining forces with Transimmune on extracorporeal photopheresis research with hopes to expand the treatment beyond skin symptoms linked to cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

[Sponsored] Preventing Unnecessary Exposure to Opioids After Surgery

The opioid crisis continues to dominate the headlines and while many solutions are being discussed, prevention is often overlooked. Reducing exposure to opioids after surgery through better pain management options can make an impact.

Roche bulks up in gene therapy and hemophilia with $4.3B Spark buyout

Late-to-the-game Roche has finally made a move in gene therapy, one of the biopharma industry’s most sought-after and expensive classes of medications, by snatching up Spark Therapeutics for $4.3 billion—gaining some novel hemophilia treatments to complement Hemlibra along the way.

Resources

[Whitepaper] Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapies: Commercial Risk, Curative Reward

White paper outlining the key types of cell-based immunotherapies in oncology, as well as the development and commercial outlook for each.

[Whitepaper] Better Market Intelligence With Smart Search

It’s never been more challenging to stay on top of trends and innovation shaping the future of healthcare. Discover how AI can help competitive intelligence teams achieve more proactive strategies.

[Whitepaper] Managing Demand Uncertainty in Biologics Production

When a biologics company prepares to launch a new product, it must forecast the manufacturing capacity it will need, factoring in its estimate of the size of future sales, the timing of the launch, the dosage of the product, its strategy for building its market and a host of other variables.

[Whitepaper] RTSM/IRT: A Roadmap For Developing Systems That Address Current Frustrations

92% of survey respondents make changes to their RTSM/IRT systems due to study changes. See what else puts a strain on their clinical trials. Download the Research Whitepaper.

[Whitepaper] Six API Challenges That could be Slowing your Development

Download this whitepaper to learn more.

[Whitepaper] Engaging Organized Customers in the Era of the Quadruple Aim

Explore how the pharma industry can adapt its approach to the changing healthcare marketplace in the era of the Quadruple Aim

[Whitepaper] Clinical Validation of a Powerful Immune Assay for Patient Selection

Learn how Health Expression Models provide increased sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for characterizing immune response in solid tumor specimens.

[Whitepaper] Host Cell Protein Analysis in Biologic Drug Development

This whitepaper reviews fundamental aspects of HCPs that pertain to biologic drug development and presents current and emerging approaches to HCP analysis.

[Whitepaper] Integrating clinical research at the Point of Care—A New Operating Model

Clinical trials take too long and cost too much—here's what needs to change.

[Whitepaper] Accelerate Time To Market Working With Industry Specialist MSP

With FDA approval imminent, start-up Life Sciences company partners with an industry focused MSP to design and manage its regulated cloud-based infrastructure to speed time to market.

[Survey] Veeva 2019 Unified Clinical Operations Survey

Share your thoughts on the life sciences industry's progress in improving study execution.

[eBook] 2018 Weekly Compendium

The Biopharma industry is moving at lightning speed and it can be a challenge to keep pace. Here at Biotech Primer we spend hours each week researching, writing, and editing original content for the Biotech Primer WEEKLY with one goal in mind: to help everyone better understand the latest science and technology driving today’s healthcare industry.

Events