Today's Rundown Big Pharma want billions more for COVID-19 funding pot Sangamo taps Mogrify for off-the-shelf CAR-Treg project Scynexis' new antifungal on track for 2020 filing with phase 3 win Life science companies combine to form COVID-19 research database Cara, with its 2nd phase 3 in the bag, eyes 2020 filing for itch drug Novartis ventures again into digital therapeutics with 'lazy eye' video game buy and collabs with Ubisoft, McGill Featured Story | | | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Big Pharma companies have the will to create experimental vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, but they also want more financial help from governments to help them push on. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sangamo Therapeutics has struck a deal with Mogrify to gain access to a source of cells for use in its allogeneic CAR-Treg therapies. The agreement sees Sangamo pay an upfront fee to get Mogrify to apply its direct cell conversion technology to the generation of regulatory T cells. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 After outshining the standard of care for yeast infections in a midstage trial, Scynexis’ broad-spectrum antifungal has delivered again. The drug beat placebo at clearing up vulvovaginal candidiasis in a second phase 3 study, teeing up an FDA submission in the second half of 2020. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 A group of major CRO, life science, data analytics, publishing and healthcare companies joined forces to release a pro bono research database to build up and integrate a central hub on the latest data out for COVID-19. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Patients with chronic kidney disease may undergo regular dialysis treatments or even require a transplant. 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