Featured Story By Max Bayer Jounce can't seem to find success atop its pipeline, reporting another phase 2 failure. As a result, the company says it's reevaluating one of its top monoclonal antibody programs in an attempt to gain some traction. read more |
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Top Stories By Max Bayer After being left for dead in 2022, Ocean Biomedical is trying to revive the once-booming SPAC play that hit Wall Street. The new company, equipped with a preclinical assets plucked from research institutions, expects to be valued at nearly $350 million. read more By Gabrielle Masson Curis has received another spark of hope as the FDA lets the biotech resume enrollment for a part of its phase 1/2 study assessing emavusertib in patients with leukemia. read more By Nick Paul Taylor ImmunoGen is rethinking the pivotal program for blood cancer antibody-drug conjugate pivekimab sunirine. After talking to the FDA, the biotech is focusing its phase 2 trial on patients without prior or concomitant hematologic malignancy, causing the top-line data drop to slip from 2022 to 2024. read more By Angus Liu Amgen has bagged the first randomized clinical trial win in the KRAS inhibitor class of cancer medicines. Beyond just a temporary data disadvantage, the development could bode ill for potential runner-up Mirati Therapeutics. read more By Nick Paul Taylor COVID-19 largely caught the world off guard, leading to a mad scramble to repurpose and develop drugs to curb the impact of SARS-CoV-2. Geoffrey Cumming wants to ensure that next time is different—and is donating 250 million Australian dollars ($171 million) over the next 20 years to make it happen read more By Fraiser Kansteiner The public wait for another round of COVID-19 vaccine boosters is finally coming to an end. Wednesday morning, the FDA gave the all-clear to Omicron-targeted COVID-19 shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. read more By Joseph Keenan LumaBridge, which was formerly Cancer Insight, signed a partnership with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy to develop new immunotherapies. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Bayer’s BlueRock Therapeutics has partnered with BioCardia on the delivery of cell therapies, paying a “sizable” upfront fee to access minimally invasive technology that could get its heart failure candidates to their targets. read more By Andrea Park Fundraising can be a constant headache for many health tech startups—but not for Theranica. The company has managed to keep a steady stream of financing coming in and investors interested in its technology since its 2016 founding. read more By Kevin Dunleavy In a blog post, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the agency has launched an Overdose Prevention Framework to combat the opioid crisis. 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