AstraZeneca, Oxford restart stalled COVID-19 test as Pfizer ramps up trial numbers for its vaccine Merck to pay Seattle $1.6B for ADC work, as ex partner Immunomedics nabs the big bucks buyout Where are they now? Tracking down 2010’s Fierce 15 Sponsored: Fierce Innovation Awards — Life Sciences Edition 2020: Winners Announcement! FDA rejects Mallinckrodt's kidney drug over risk-benefit doubts Next-gen T-cell cancer player Neogene raises $110M with help from some big-name players Boehringer’s schizophrenia med boosts cognition in phase 2 Frequency's hearing loss treatment shows long-term promise Nanospectra Bio nets Sirtex backing for gold nanoparticle prostate cancer therapy BridgeBio's Navire preps SHP2 blocker for lung cancer trial after positive mouse study Featured Story | By Ben Adams Just under a week after it stopped its key phase 3 pandemic vaccine test, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have been given the green light to restart in the U.K. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Merck has struck a deal to develop Seattle Genetics’ antibody-drug conjugate ladiratuzumab vedotin. The agreement will see Merck pay $600 million and make a $1 billion investment in Seattle Genetics in return for the chance to embark on a joint development program. read more By Phil Taylor Over the years, more than 250 companies have been named as finalists in the annual Fierce 15 competition. Before we unveil the 2020 crop of winners, let’s look back 10 years to the class of 2010 and see how the intervening decade has been for them. read more Sponsored by: Fierce Biotech The Fierce Innovation Awards: Life Sciences Edition have come to a close and we're pleased to announce the 2020 award winners! read more By Nick Paul Taylor The FDA has rejected Mallinckrodt’s request for approval of terlipressin in a rare type of progressive kidney failure. Mallinckrodt suffered the setback despite hitting its primary endpoint in phase 3 and winning the backing of an advisory committee in a split decision. read more By Ben Adams A new neoantigen T-cell player has launched with Neogene nabbing a major $110 million series A. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Boehringer Ingelheim’s schizophrenia hopeful hit the mark in a phase 2 study, helping patients overcome cognitive impairment that can affect everyday tasks, such as remembering important dates or solving problems. The treatment, BI 425809, works by inhibiting a protein called glycine transporter type 1, or Gly-T1. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Frequency Therapeutics’ hearing loss treatment showed early signs of efficacy last year, with some patients showing improvements after a few months. Now, as the biotech plugs away at a phase 2a study, it’s reporting new data showing the drug’s effects lasting as far out as 21 months. read more By Conor Hale Sirtex Medical, maker of a radioactive microsphere implant for treating liver tumors, has made a strategic investment in the developer of a prostate cancer therapy featuring laser-charged gold particles, Nanospectra Biosciences. read more By Arlene Weintraub Drugs to treat EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are effective, but patients often become resistant to them. MD Anderson researchers teamed with BridgeBio’s Navire Pharma to develop an SHP2 inhibitor and are reporting that the drug caused tumors to shrink in models of drug-resistant NSCLC. read more | | LabConnect is now offering global analytical and operational services to meet your COVID-19 testing requirements. We offer viral load testing by RT-qPCR and multiple COVID-19 screening assays. Connect with LabConnect today. We are here to help. |
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