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Today's Rundown

Featured Story

Sarepta bags drug to fully unlock DMD gene therapy opportunity

Sarepta Therapeutics has secured a license to a drug that could enable more patients to receive its gene therapies. The deal grants Sarepta the exclusive right to use Hansa Biopharma’s imlifidase to eliminate neutralizing antibodies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy patients.

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Top Stories

MEI Pharma, Helsinn Group cut losses, ditch phase 3 partnered cancer test for pracinostat

Helsinn Group and MEI Pharma penned a near $500 million biobucks pact for experimental blood cancer drug pracinostat back in 2016, but now the pair is closing the curtain on one of its key tests.

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Pfizer-backed Bolt Therapeutics strikes $93.5M funding round as lead med hits the clinic

After kick-starting its first-in-human test back in March, Bolt Therapeutics has nabbed a meaty $93.5 million round to help fund its clinical work.

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British cell therapy biotech Rexgenero nabs life science veteran as CMO

With stints at the likes of Genzyme, Bayer and, most recently, TranScrip Partners, Gilbert Wagener, M.D., Ph.D., is now signing up to U.K. biotech Rexgenero.

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Annexon grabs $100M from a host of top VC firms for complement therapies

Annexon has grabbed a healthy $100 million round to take its clinical work closer to the finishing line as it tees up shots on multiple targets.

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5 FDA-approved antivirals could target COVID-19: study

Antivirals from Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb, Viiv and Gilead, or modified versions of them, could prove effective against COVID-19, reported researchers from Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. What's key is their ability to disrupt a protein called polymerase.

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FiercePharmaAsia—GSK's, Akebia's anemia nods; Takeda's Xiidra loss and $900M gene therapy deal

GlaxoSmithKline and Akebia have won global first nods for their novel anemia drugs in Japan. Novartis has ditched an application for its Takeda-bought eye med Xiidra in Europe. Takeda is treading deeper into gene therapy with a deal potentially worth $900 million with Carmine Therapeutics. And more.

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Chutes & Ladders—Novavax taps Machielse to head manufacturing in lead up to approvals

Novavax has brought new CMC head Machielse to head manufacturing; Rexgenero taps Wagener as CMO; EMA nominates Cooke as new director.

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