Today's Rundown Featured Story | | | Monday, July 23, 2018 Human Longevity has accused its co-founder and former CEO, J. Craig Venter, of sharing secrets with competitors. The company made the accusations in a filing to sue the J. Craig Venter Institute. |
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Top Stories Monday, July 23, 2018 Sangamo Therapeutics is set to acquire TxCell for its CAR-Treg platform and pipeline. The €72 million ($84 million) takeover will position Sangamo to move a CAR-carrying regulatory T cell candidate into testing in solid organ transplant patients next year. Monday, July 23, 2018 Alzheon is still trying to build a case for a pivotal trial of its Alzheimer’s candidate, and the company says it has new data backing up the drug’s use in patients genetically predisposed to develop the disease. Monday, July 23, 2018 Gene and cell therapies are at the cutting-edge of biomedical research, promising potentially curative options for a host of disorders such as forms of blindness, blood cancers and inherited diseases. Monday, July 23, 2018 Epizyme, in the midst of a partial clinical hold on a test for its experimental drug tazemetostat, has hired a new chief medical officer. Monday, July 23, 2018 Little-known private biotech Anima Biotech has signed a deal with Eli Lilly potentially worth more than $1 billion in biobucks as the pair seek to work on the biotech’s translation inhibitors. Monday, July 23, 2018 French Big Pharma Sanofi, through its venture arm, has led a $17 million funding round for Click Therapeutics, a startup looking to boost work on an online platform of “prescription digital therapeutics.” | This week's sponsor is IQVIA. | |  | |
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