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Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Scott Gottlieb’s relatively short two-year tenure as the FDA’s head has ended, and we have a new man at the helm: Ned Sharpless. However, he used his first official talk to ensure we all know he’s not looking to tear up Gottlieb’s legacy. |
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Top Stories Wednesday, April 17, 2019 GlaxoSmithKline is set to lay off a small number of R&D employees at its Stevenage, U.K., site as part of a wider rethink of its drug development operation. The layoffs come as GSK revises its R&D strategy under the scientific leadership of Hal Barron. Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Kiadis is set to buy CytoSen Therapeutics to expand into anti-cancer natural killer cell therapies. The all-stock transaction will give Kiadis control of a preclinical NK cell therapy and see it add CAR-T pioneer Carl June to its scientific advisory board. Monday, April 15, 2019 Mitotech – a biotech specializing in targeting mitochondria – is moving into late stage of clinical development in Dry Eye Disease. Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Nocion is working on positively charged molecules that silence nociceptors—the neurons that send pain or itch signals—without affecting other neurons. The hope is to come up with drugs that treat pain without causing numbness, paralysis and other side effects. Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Boston Scientific and Coloplast—the two remaining U.S. manufacturers of transvaginal surgical mesh—have been ordered by the FDA to halt the sale and distribution of those products across the country, effective immediately. | This week's sponsor is Sensors Expo. | |  | |
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