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Jun 12, 2024

Pfizer, Flagship name first target for multibillion-dollar collaboration: obesity


Foresite raises $900M to make big bets in 'one of the best biotech investment environments'


Bayer’s biotech head Jens Vogel says good-bye after 4 years


Ultragenyx-Mereo's brittle bone drug sustains fracture rate cut in midphase follow-up


NodThera's NLRP3 inhibitor shows further anti-inflammatory promise in phase 1b/2a obesity trial


Early data for Avidity's RNA therapy show possible functional benefit in muscular dystrophy


GSK signs AI pact with Ochre to pinpoint source of liver diseases

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Pfizer, Flagship name first target for multibillion-dollar collaboration: obesity

Pfizer and Flagship Pioneering have settled on the first target for their billion-dollar, multiprogram collaboration and it’s not exactly a surprise: The New York pharma giant will work with the venture creation firm’s ProFound Therapeutics to develop new obesity drugs.
 

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Foresite raises $900M to make big bets in 'one of the best biotech investment environments'

Foresite Capital CEO Jim Tananbaum says we’re in “one of the best biotech investment environments” of his multi-decade career—and has rounded up $900 million to put that belief to the test with a fresh set of big bets.

Bayer’s biotech head Jens Vogel says good-bye after 4 years

Amid an organizational reset, Bayer’s SVP and Global Head of Biotech Jens Vogel, Ph.D., has hit the exits after four years with the German pharma.  

Innovation, Partnerships & Progress: How Life Sciences Is Booming in Maryland’s Montgomery County

Drive or take the metro in any direction within Montgomery County, Maryland, and you'll come across a life science company responsible for a major innovation.

Ultragenyx-Mereo's brittle bone drug sustains fracture rate cut in midphase follow-up

Ultragenyx and Mereo BioPharma have broken off another piece of brittle bone data, linking their drug candidate to sustained reductions in fracture rates in a midphase clinical trial.

NodThera's NLRP3 inhibitor shows further anti-inflammatory promise in phase 1b/2a obesity trial

An early readout from a study in humans with obesity has again demonstrated the drug’s anti-inflammatory potential.

Early data for Avidity's RNA therapy show possible functional benefit in muscular dystrophy

Avidity Biosciences’ AOC 1020, newly dubbed del-brax, demonstrated a safe profile and was tied to functional improvement among people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in a phase 1/2 trial.

GSK signs AI pact with Ochre to pinpoint source of liver diseases

GSK and Ochre Bio will work together in a $37.5 million partnership to pinpoint the drivers of liver disease.

Fierce Biotech Fundraising Tracker '24: Alzheon adds $100M for Alzheimer's ph. 3; Bright Peak bags $90M

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Analysts tip Lilly’s Alzheimer’s launch to boost rival Leqembi

Eli Lilly looks set to make the long-deserted Alzheimer’s disease market a two-horse town—but that may be a good thing for Biogen and Eisai. William Blair analysts are tipping the anticipated approval of a rival anti-amyloid therapy to boost Leqembi by helping raise awareness, although they also see possible risks to the early frontrunner after Lilly waltzed through its advisory committee.

IQVIA aims to solve capacity problem with multivendor software platform for trial sites

IQVIA hopes to help clinical trial sites rein in the number of different software systems they have to manage with a new platform that puts them all behind a single dashboard, potentially improving their capacity for studies.

Kardium nets $104M for its spherical pulsed field ablation catheter

Shortly after announcing positive clinical trial data from its pulsed field ablation treatment for irregular heart rhythms, Kardium has more good news to share.

Lokavant launches AI solution for real-time clinical trial optimization

Lokavant has released a new artificial intelligence solution that it claims can help contract research organizations and sponsors predict, optimize and control clinical trials in real time. 

UPDATED: Sanders wants to subpoena Novo Nordisk exec to answer questions on Wegovy, Ozempic pricing

Sen. Bernie Sanders is stepping up his attack on Novo Nordisk over the prices the company charges in the U.S. for its wildly popular diabetes and weight loss drugs. Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is asking the committee to vote on whether it should subpoena Novo’s North American operations chief Doug Langa to face questions at a hearing on July 10.
 
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