| This week's sponsor is Premier Research. | |  | Overcoming Risk in Oncology Drug Development
Oncology drug development is full of potential obstacles and risks, and you must carefully plan each step. Click here for tips on finding the fast track. Premier Research. Built for biotech. |
Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Thursday, June 13, 2019 Bain Capital has raised a $1.1 billion life sciences fund to place another round of big bets. The fund sets Bain up to continue striking eye-catching deals such as the Pfizer spinouts it bankrolled through its first life science investment vehicle. |
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Top Stories Thursday, June 13, 2019 GlaxoSmithKline is joining forces with the University of California to dig into how gene mutations cause disease and to use CRISPR to discover new drugs. The partners will set up a laboratory that will net up to $67 million in funding over five years. Thursday, June 13, 2019 Gilead Sciences has entered into an infectious disease antibody discovery pact with AbCellera. The deal sees Gilead task AbCellera with using technologies to find rare antibodies with certain characteristics. Monday, June 10, 2019 Read the case study to learn how Covance helped a sponsor who wanted to get all sites for a 2,700 patient study up and running as quickly as possible. Covance leveraged their proprietary historical investigator performance database to see which investigators outperformed their peers on a consistent basis and had the capacity to run multiple studies at the same time. Thursday, June 13, 2019 BlackThorn Therapeutics raised $76 million to push targeted treatments for mood disorders into phase 2 studies and keep working on the machine learning-based technology that underlies its clinical pipeline. Thursday, June 13, 2019 Clinical trial specialist Medidata is being bought out by France’s Dassault Systemes in a deal designed to help the tech firm diversify deeper into the biopharma services world. Thursday, June 13, 2019 CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing requires cutting DNA, which can lead to errors. Scientists at Columbia University are proposing an alternative that uses a transposon to precisely insert DNA sequences in any site on the genome. | This week's sponsor is Cobra Biologics. | |  |
Cobra provides expert scale up and manufacturing of customers’ live biotherapeutic microbiota products, manufacturing to cGMP standards for clinical and commercial scale. We also offer DNA and viral vector services, with experienced project teams nurturing customers’ products within GMP approved facilities. Visit our website to find out more. |
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