Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Friday, April 12, 2019 After announcing a small but broadly positive combo for its two biotech buyout NASH drugs yesterday, Gilead is hoping that adding a diabetes and obesity drug from Novo Nordisk can help boost its ability to knock out fat in the liver. |
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Top Stories Friday, April 12, 2019 “Ultimately, every drug discovery project starts off as a small-data project,” said Andrew Hopkins, Exscientia CEO. “And of course, that is where the commercial imperative is as well, to develop innovative medicines.” Friday, April 12, 2019 Peter Greenleaf arrives at Aurinia as it moves its drug, voclosporin, through phase 3 for lupus nephritis, a type of kidney inflammation related to lupus. Monday, April 8, 2019 Increasingly complex trials place a burden on study sites, exacerbating already-troubling recruitment and enrollment issues. Strategically placed Enrollment Assistants can ease that burden, making sites more agile and offering patients personalized attention that leads to conversion and retention. Thursday, April 11, 2019 Vaccines against the Ebola virus have been distributed amid several outbreaks. But the immune response to the virus is still not fully understood, which makes improving vaccine design a challenge. Now, scientists in France have found some clues to improving the vaccines by studying survivors from the 2014-2016 outbreak. Friday, April 12, 2019 In this week's EuroBiotech Report, Bayer is planting seeds in Kendall Square, Poxel saw its shares jump, Kymab turns to former German Merck executive, J&J Vision and Edwards spend millions on new medtech manufacturing sites in Ireland and more. Friday, April 12, 2019 Nobel laureate demands a bigger cut of Ono's Opdivo revenues; on a selloff spree, Takeda is said to be scouting bidders for its Latin American business; the Trump administration forces a Chinese genomics investor out of a U.S. health service platform; and more. Friday, April 12, 2019 Shire R&D chief jumps ship to Ironwood spinout amid Takeda megamerger; Daiichi taps new CEO as it unveils tie-up with AstraZeneca; and U.K. biotech Kymab nabs new CEO from Merck KGaA. Those moves plus more hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | |  | |
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