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September 12, 2018

Today's Rundown

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Gilead, Galapagos’ filgotinib aces first phase 3, suggesting it can compete with AbbVie’s upadacitinib

A phase 3 trial of Gilead and Galapagos’ JAK1 inhibitor filgotinib in rheumatoid arthritis has met its primary endpoint. The data suggest filgotinib is safe and as effective as JAK rivals including AbbVie’s upadacitinib, setting the stage for a four-way commercial scrap.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb begins phase 3 enrollment after psoriasis drug shows high skin clearance

An oral tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor from Bristol-Myers Squibb has checked off a phase 2 trial in plaque psoriasis, achieving high levels of skin clearance after three months of daily treatment. The big biotech has begun enrolling patients in a phase 3 study and is planning to study the drug in a wide array of immune-mediated diseases.

Atreca bags $125M as solid tumor trial comes into view

Atreca has raised $125 million to step up its R&D activities. The series C round comes as Atreca gears up to move its lead solid tumor drug into the clinic and boost the throughput of the industrialized discovery engine it has built up over the past seven years. 

Vital Therapies falls 88%, ditches liver treatment after phase 3 fail

Vital Therapies is abandoning its cell-based therapy for liver failure and “considering strategic options” after it did not improve overall survival—the primary endpoint—in a late-stage study.

Coda Biotherapeutics launches with $19M to build ‘tunable’ gene therapy

Coda Biotherapeutics' goal is to create a gene therapy that can be switched on and off, and dialed up and down, to overcome limitations in current technology and open up more diseases to gene therapy.

Resources

[Whitepaper] How to Re-Design your Regulatory Capabilities

A top 20 pharma and growing biotech re-engineer regulatory processes.

[Whitepaper] The Future of Pharmacovigilance: Leveraging Technology and Automation

Are automation, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) a key part of your company’s pharmacovigilance strategy? Read this whitepaper to know what they should be!

[eBook] 2018 Weekly Compendium

The Biopharma industry is moving at lightning speed and it can be a challenge to keep pace. Here at Biotech Primer we spend hours each week researching, writing, and editing original content for the Biotech Primer WEEKLY with one goal in mind: to help everyone better understand the latest science and technology driving today’s healthcare industry.

[Whitepaper] Choosing the Best Sterile Dosage Form for Your Phase I Clinical Supply Needs

When developing a parenteral, pharmaceutical scientists are faced with a variety of choices – choices that can be conflicting or present differing advantages.

[Whitepaper] Scale-Up and Technical Transfer for Lyophilized Products

Baxter BioPharma Solutions’ whitepaper offers a method to address the challenges of tech transfer for lyophilized products from lab-scale to commercial-scale.

[Case Study] Identification of an Unknown Leachable Species from BFS Vials

In this case study, an unknown leachable species was detected by GC-MS analysis of an alkaline drug product (pH approximately 10.5) that was packaged in a novel self- contained plastic Blow Fill Seal (BFS) vial.

[Whitepaper] Addressing the Special Commercial Challenges in Rare Diseases

A whitepaper outlining the key commercial challenges facing rare disease products, and how biopharmaceutical companies can overcome them.

[Webinar] Enabling precision medicine with Tableau and AWS

Inova is using the capabilities of Tableau on AWS to identify biomarkers for personalized treatment intended to improve health outcomes for children.

[Paid Marketplace] Stability Testing & Storage

Catalent provides world class stability services to ease your critical path to success.

[Webinar] Build a holistic data management strategy for Life Sciences

Reltio and IQVIA provide holistic data management solutions for traditional pharma, emerging biotech, and consumer health companies, on AWS.

[Webinar] Safeguard your Life Sciences data with Druva and AWS

Life Sciences organizations are embracing cloud-based Master Data Management (MDM) to modernize the organization of critical data.

[Whitepaper] Evolving Approaches to Drug Value Assessment in Global Markets

The window of market exclusivity continues to narrow dramatically in the global marketplace. Given this demanding environment, your global market access team faces increasing urgency to get the value proposition right at the time of launch.

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