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August 29, 2018

Today's Rundown

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Biotech boom powers analysts to $4M-a-year salaries: WSJ

The biotech boom is having a big effect on the pay packets of equity analysts, according to The Wall Street Journal. Driven by a desire to show they understand biotech, banks are reportedly paying analysts up to $4 million a year, several times more than the typical salary in other industries. 

Top Stories

Women’s health firm KaNDy raises $32M for menopause study

KaNDy Therapeutics now has the finances it needs to start a phase 2b trial of its nonhormonal therapy for menopausal symptoms.

Reality check for Hong Kong biotech IPOs as Ascletis slips

Ascletis Pharma, the first biotech to list in Hong Kong under its exchange’s new rules, has fallen 44% in its first month of trade, a wake-up call for other biotech companies looking to follow in its footsteps.

Xenon’s epilepsy drug clears phase 1b, setting stage for trial in patients

A phase 1b trial has linked Xenon’s epilepsy candidate XEN1101 to statistically significant declines in measures of corticospinal and cortical excitability. The data tee Xenon up to move the Kv7 potassium channel opener into a phase 2 trial in adult focal seizures by the end of the year.

Targeting Alzheimer’s with a soluble toll-like receptor

Scientists at the University of Florida found that soluble versions of toll-like receptors—proteins believed to play a key role in the neuro-inflammatory response seen in Alzheimer's—could hold promise in reversing amyloid plaques.

Indian government committee calls for Johnson & Johnson to pay patients for recalled hip implants

A panel convened by the Indian drug and medical device regulator has recommended Johnson & Johnson compensate each Indian patient that had to undergo revision surgeries or suffered adverse reactions to its metal-on-metal hip implants recalled in August 2010.

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