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May 07, 2019

Today's Rundown

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GV leads $58.5M round for Verve, a startup looking to pit gene editing against heart attacks

Verve Therapeutics is launching with $58.5 million, access to gene-editing tech from the likes of the Broad Institute and Beam Therapeutics, and longtime cardiologist and geneticist Sekar Kathiresan at its helm.

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MedImmune-lite? Immunocore delves into British Big Pharma's R&D talent pool, again

Bahija Jallal, David Berman, Koustubh Ranadel, and now Mohammed Dar lines up as the latest AstraZeneca/MedImmune executive to jump ship into U.K. biotech Immunocore.

Roche, PTC post latest SMA data from their attempt to rival Spinraza, Zolgensma

Though a rare condition, the debilitating wasting disease spinal muscular atrophy is gaining a large biopharma interest (and price tags in the millions of dollars), and Roche, with partner PTC Therapeutics, are the latest companies to show their hand in improving kids’ ability to move with the genetic disorder.

With promising pivotal data, Viela Bio's lead autoimmune drug heads for FDA filing

Viela tested inebilizumab in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, a rare disease in which the immune system attacks the optic nerves, spinal cord and brain. The drug reduced these attacks by 73%.

Confo raises €30M A round to target hard-to-drug GPCRs

Confo Therapeutics has raised €30 million ($34 million) to take compounds targeting difficult-to-drug GPCRs into clinical development. The series A sets Confo up to advance drugs derived from a novel way of stabilizing GPCRs and performing more sensitive screens.

Promethera raises €40M to fund trial of NASH cell therapy

Promethera Biosciences has raised €39.7 million ($44.4 million) to put its liver disease cell therapy through clinical trials. The series D round comes as Promethera prepares to start testing its lead drug in end-stage NASH patients.

U.K. government funds plans for 'pay as you go' drug development AI

Artificial intelligence in drug development is among the hottest buzzwords in biopharma right now, but often real progress from it is hampered by a lack of expertise and less than equal access to its latent potential.

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