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Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Tuesday, April 23, 2019 The biotech industry is becoming the most active group for later-stage pipeline work, and while Big Pharma sees its R&D share drop, emerging life science companies are better prepared to go it alone. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, April 23, 2019 GlaxoSmithKline has offloaded the global rights to failed cardiovascular disease drug losmapimod to Fulcrum Therapeutics. Fulcrum plans to reposition the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitor as a treatment for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Genentech has backed Cambridge, U.K.-based life science accelerator Start Codon. The money will enable Start Codon to provide startups with the funding, lab space and support they need to get to a series A fundraise. Monday, April 22, 2019 Reprogramming the innate immune system, rather than the adaptive immune system, may be the path to treat both cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Monday, April 22, 2019 Aduro Biotech has a new chief medical officer: Dimitry Nuyten, M.D., Ph.D., who joins as the company is refocusing on cancer drugs targeting the STING and APRIL pathways. Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Biotech and pharma companies shared their mid- to late-stage fatty liver disease data earlier this month at the EASL liver conference, and now the first-ever approval addressing this growing health burden appears to be peeking over the horizon. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | |  | |
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