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Genfit cans phase 3 NASH trial after failing interim analysis 

Genfit is set to terminate its phase 3 nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) trial after concluding it is unlikely to generate data to support approval. The action eliminates a long-time front-runner in the now-stuttering race to bring a NASH treatment to market. 

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Roche drops hep B antiviral as late-stage pipeline tests 'largely on track' despite COVID-19 disruption

Roche has canned a phase 1 test of a potential hepatitis B antiviral as part of its third-quarter clean-up of unwanted pipeline drugs.

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Longwood banks $175M in its latest biotech fund

Longwood Fund is topping up its coffers with $175 million for its fifth biotech-building fund. Aptly dubbed Fund V, it is nearly double the VC shop’s first fund of $85 million, raised in 2010. The firm will continue to create new companies, as well as back early rounds for established companies.

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Sponsored: Rise in Targeted Therapies Drives Need for Flexible Small-Volume Manufacturing

Ensuring cohesion between drug substance chemists & drug product formulators is critical to manage risks & maximize rewards of transforming less soluble & bioavailable molecules into effective drugs.

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Borisy's EQRx bags rights to EGFR inhibitor to drive discount me-too plan

Alexis Borisy’s EQRx has secured the ex-China rights to Hansoh Pharmaceutical’s almonertinib. The deal sets EQRx up to work the EGFR inhibitor into its plan to market me-too drugs at radical discounts to incumbent products.

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Olema Oncology grabs $54M for breast cancer program

Olema Oncology, a biotech focused on women’s cancers, raised $54 million to push its lead program into the clinic and boost its R&D efforts in other areas. The capital will bankroll a phase 1/2 study of the asset, OP-1250, as a single agent in patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

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Preventing heart attacks by changing how platelets respond to blood flow stress

Existing clot busters have one major drawback: They can block the proper functioning of platelets, thereby increasing the risk of uncontrolled bleeding. A research team led by Monash University has found a way to target platelet activation in a manner that appears to address the pathological clumping of blood.

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Planning ahead: U.S., Canada order 177M more COVID-19 vaccine syringes from BD

Many countries are working to have the necessary medical infrastructure in place before a COVID-19 vaccine is proven effective. And now, as promising data begins to trickle in from a number of drugmakers, the U.S. is nearly quadrupling its orders for needles and syringes made by BD.

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