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October 04, 2017

Today's Rundown

  1. Amgen pens CytomX I-O pact with major biobucks promise

  2. Startup Palleon has a sweet plan for cancer immunotherapy

  3. Motif Bio phase 3 hits endpoint, teeing up date with FDA

  4. [Sponsored] End-to-End Drug & Diagnostic Development Support For A New Immuno Oncology Agent

  5. Amgen helps Immatics to $58M round to fund cancer trials

  6. After a recent failure, Catabasis uses open-label data for phase 3 push

  7. Thync’s bioelectronics wearable shows promise in psoriasis pilot

  8. Mylan surprises analysts, Teva with long-delayed Copaxone approvals

Featured Story

Amgen pens CytomX I-O pact with major biobucks promise

Just a few months after Fierce 15 winner CytomX signed a major $3.6 billion biobucks deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb, the biotech is at it again, this time with Amgen.

Top Stories

Startup Palleon has a sweet plan for cancer immunotherapy

The immuno-oncology sector has a new player. Massachusetts startup Palleon Pharmaceuticals has raised $47.6 million to fund the development of drugs that target sugar-sensing molecules on the surfaces of cells.

Motif Bio phase 3 hits endpoint, teeing up date with FDA

A second phase 3 trial of Motif Bio’s antibiotic iclaprim has hit its primary endpoint. The data tee Motif Bio up to file for approval of a drug that was knocked back by the FDA in 2009 and almost sunk the biotech 12 months ago.

[Sponsored] End-to-End Drug & Diagnostic Development Support For A New Immuno Oncology Agent

Learn how one company sought support at multiple junctures—from manufacturing to biomarker evaluation to market access—to enable a faster and more effective launch of their new programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1)-blocking antibody.

Amgen helps Immatics to $58M round to fund cancer trials

Immatics has raised $58 million (€49 million) to push its cancer immunotherapies deeper into the clinic. The German T-cell specialist turned to its existing investors and new partner Amgen to put together the round, which brings its amount raised to date up toward €200 million.

After a recent failure, Catabasis uses open-label data for phase 3 push

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals is looking to test its experimental Duchenne drug edasalonexent in a late-stage trial after posting the last of the data from its midstage work.

Thync’s bioelectronics wearable shows promise in psoriasis pilot

Thync, which markets wearables that help users sleep better or relax, reported the first effective use of bioelectronics to treat psoriasis in a pilot study. The noninvasive therapy “significantly” reduced psoriasis symptoms and could fill a gap in psoriasis treatment.

Mylan surprises analysts, Teva with long-delayed Copaxone approvals

Mylan’s long been frustrated by a pair of delays for high-profile generic products. But on Tuesday evening, it picked up an approval for one of them—and it came at Teva’s expense.

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Resources

[Webinar] Validating a 7 Day Membrane Filtration Sterility Test using Celsis®

Join us as we discuss how Charles River Celsis® helped Labor L+S AG validate a 7-day membrane filtration sterility test using existing protocols.

[Whitepaper] Industry Report: Clinical Operations Leaders Reveal Need for Change

The 2017 Unified Clinical Operations Survey finds that 99% of respondents report the need to unify their clinical applications, including CTMS, EDC, eTMF, and study start-up.

[Infographic] Evolution of Flexible Commercial Biologics Manufacturing

Learn how Catalent Biologics is paving the way for flexible biologics development and manufacturing through advanced technologies and fully integrated multi-product facility.

[eBook] Developing Site-specifically Modified ADCs: Using a Chemoenzymatic Approach

Download the eBook to get articles from various Elsevier journals highlighting developments in ADC technology.

[Article] Optimizing titer and use of a specific enzyme for generating a fully processed antibody

Learn how cell development and process scale-up can be optimized for antibodies requiring additional processing.

[Webinar] Within-Subject Clinical Trials: Intro to New Methods & Stat. Models

In this webinar, we will introduce the rapidly-evolving within-subject clinical trial (WSCT) methods for early phase evidence generation that require fewer people, less time, and usually less funding than traditional early phase methods.

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