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Junshi tees up China filing for PD-1 med after throat cancer win

Junshi’s PD-1 blocker is already approved in China for metastatic melanoma. But it’s not stopping there—it plans to add other cancer types to the drug’s label, starting with throat cancer. The drug, along with a standard-of-care chemotherapy duo, beat chemo alone at staving off cancer progression in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, teeing up a regulatory filing.

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Orgenesis inks Koligo buyout to gain COVID-19 cell therapy

Orgenesis has struck a deal to acquire Koligo Therapeutics. The takeover will give Orgenesis control of an autologous cell therapy treatment for respiratory disease caused by COVID-19. 

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Dewpoint Therapeutics to put 'pedal to the metal' with $77M round

Dewpoint Therapeutics, which launched in 2018 in both Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Dresden, Germany, aims to develop drugs against biomolecular condensates, poorly understood organelles that have been untapped as drug targets. The series B funding will bankroll the development of Dewpoint's platform and the identification of new drug candidates.

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TriSalus hires Katz to run studies of ex-Dynavax cancer drug

TriSalus Life Sciences has named Steven Katz, M.D., as its chief medical officer. The appointment gives Katz the chance to apply his experience as clinical investigator on solid tumor clinical trials to a pipeline led by TLR9 agonist SD-101.

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BridgeBio's en route to proving out its 'Moneyball' for biotech model: CEO

When Neil Kumar, Ph.D., started BridgeBio Pharma in 2015, he met a lot of rejection. Investor after investor passed on his idea: picking up rare disease treatments “lying fallow” in academia and developing enough of them simultaneously that they would make money. Now, five years, an IPO and more than 20 programs later, BridgeBio is showing its backers what it’s made of.

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LabCorp aims to take Genfit's NASH liver diagnostic blood test into primary care

LabCorp has signed a new, five-year agreement to license a blood test from Genfit designed to identify patients with risky cases of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, also known as NASH.

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Killing cancer by blocking cell doors

Cancer cells survive and proliferate with the help of nutrients and other materials that reach the cell nucleus via the “nuclear pore complex”—a door of sorts that’s vital for tumor survival. A team at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has early evidence that blocking those doors can slow tumor growth.

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Beyond COVID: The top vaccine programs to watch in 2020

With a pandemic spreading globally, vaccines have moved to the forefront of the public’s attention—naturally focused on COVID-19 candidates moving at record speeds. But biopharma companies haven’t given up on their other promising programs. These are the top late-stage vaccine prospects in pipelines today.

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