Today's Rundown After canning clinical pipeline, Merrimack CEO, CFO abandon ship CRUK invests in SV fund, pushing it closer to $250M target Another effort on pancreatic cancer flops, as Boston Biomedical cans phase 3 combo test Teckro hiring spree nets ex-Icon CMO Nominations for FierceBiotech's 2019 Fierce 15 Thermo Fisher and Catalent to manufacture gene therapies being developed by Amicus Featured Story | | | Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Two months after safety issues put an end to its clinical-stage pipeline, Merrimack's CEO, chief financial officer and president are bidding it adieu. Dr. Richard Peters, Jean Franchi and Gary Crocker resigned last Friday. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Cancer Research UK and SV Health Investors have allied to accelerate development of cancer drugs. CRUK is set to invest $25 million in SV’s new biotech fund and work with its new partner to pick out research to develop externally. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Boston Biomedical is halting a late-stage study of its investigational drug, alongside older chemo therapies, after it failed to help pancreatic cancer patients. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Teckro has appointed Brendan Buckley as CMO. Buckley is one of a clutch of leaders hired by the Irish tech-enabled clinical research startup around the time of its $25 million series C round. Monday, July 1, 2019 It’s the summer and that means one thing in the FierceBiotech office: it’s time of year when we want your nominations for this year’s fiercest private biotech companies. Every year we want to see the brightest and the best that young biotechs have to offer. Monday, July 1, 2019 Amicus Therapeutics has already forked over $100 million for 10 gene therapies. It is building a new R&D operation to advance them. But when it comes to manufacturing, it is turning to CDMOs. | This week's sponsor is Medrio. | | | [Webinar] Accelerating Site and Patient Enrollment for Phase 1 Trials
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This Fierce webinar will feature clinical trial site leaders and R&D executives, who will pass along the latest strategies for boosting site and patient enrollment in phase 1 trials. They will discuss best practices for communicating with both investigators and patients. Register Now! |
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