Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Roivant has laid off some staff and reassigned others to subsidiaries in a notable strategic shift. The changes see Roivant shed around 10% of its staff and cede responsibility for others to the heads of its portfolio of startups. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, June 26, 2018 AbbVie and Calico are reupping their massive, $1.5 billion research collaboration on age-related diseases first launched in 2014, with a new billion-dollar commitment split between the two. Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Precision BioSciences has raised $110 million. The series B round sets the genome editing specialist up to take its lead, off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy into clinical trials. Monday, June 25, 2018 The increasing demand for innovation in research and the related pressures to deliver on the most promising findings from discovery are also driving the need for simultaneous innovation in the technologies that enable that innovation and, likewise, the reliance on data management solutions that respond to an increasingly complex scientific environment. Monday, June 25, 2018 The Dementia Discovery Fund capped its fundraising at $350 million; it was nudged across the line by a $60 million investment from AARP. Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Celgene launched a $60 million collaboration with Skyhawk Therapeutics to develop and commercialize small molecules targeting RNA mis-splicing in neurological diseases. Monday, June 25, 2018 Kaleido Biosciences has raked in $101 million in series C financing, after coming out of stealth last September with $65 million, with the goal of developing novel chemistries that direct the human microbiome and its various bacteria as a whole. Tuesday, June 26, 2018 BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has decided not to offer its experimental cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) under the newly passed law. The Israeli biotech considered ethical, legal and practical aspects of providing the treatment and said the clincher was its inability to fund the treatment for all patients who wanted to try it. Enrollment Showcase | | | Sponsored by: Bioinformatics at UTHealth SBMI UTHealth SBMI now offers a M.S. track in clinical and translational bioinformatics. |
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