Voyager Therapeutics looks to shake off a tough year as it pens Pfizer gene therapy pact worth $630M Sanofi poaches Gilead cancer exec Fantin to run its oncology research Takeda slams brakes on narcolepsy program, stopping 2 studies early in response to safety signal Sponsored: The Role of Quality and Speed in Custom Model Generation EQRx's affordable drug drive leads to Absci discovery pact Sponsored: Accelerating Outcomes with a Pancreatic Cancer Adaptive Platform Retrotope misses main endpoint but plans to take improved survival late-stage trial data in ultrarare disorder to FDA Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health announce new digital transformation company GlaxoSmithKline relocates US operations in Philadelphia, North Carolina as COVID-19 cuts its office space needs Henrietta Lacks' estate sues Thermo Fisher for continued sale of HeLa cells without family consent Fresh off September buy, Syneos inks another deal for AI firm RxDataScience Dengue pill backed by J&J shows potency against the virus and all known variants in mice Featured Story | By Ben Adams Hoping to make gene therapies safer and looking to move on from a troubled 18 months, Pfizer is putting down as much as $630 million in an upfront/milestone-based payment for Voyager’s next-gen gene therapies. read more |
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Top Stories By Ben Adams After a short tenure at Gilead running its cancer R&D, Valeria Fantin, Ph.D., has been poached by French Big Pharma Sanofi. read more By Nick Paul Taylor Takeda has hit the brakes hard on its narcolepsy program in response to a safety signal, stopping its two midphase clinical trials months before their planned completion dates. read more Sponsored By: Taconic Biosciences Pressure to get results in drug discovery and development is unprecedented and the need for genetically engineered custom mouse models is greater than ever. Innovative thinking is getting these critical models into researchers hands faster. read more By Nick Paul Taylor EQRx has identified a partner to support its effort to slash the price of medicines, teaming up with newly public drug and target discovery shop Absci to advance affordable protein-based therapeutics. read more Sponsored by: Almac Group PanCan utilised Almac's IRT expertise to accelerate their adaptive platform outcomes and improve patient care. Find out how here. read more By Kyle LaHucik Retrotope's lead candidate missed the primary endpoint in a late-stage trial of patients with an ultrarare and fatal genetic disease called infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy. The drug did statistically improve overall survival and progression free survival, so the California biotech will move forward with speaking to the FDA about its regulatory pathway. read more By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya The nonprofit is called Graphite Health, and it intends to build a standardized data platform for members as well as a marketplace that will feature accessible software and digital tools for health systems and patients. read more By Angus Liu Many companies have shifted their way of working amid COVID-19. Adjusting to how work is done these days, GlaxoSmithKline is downsizing its office footprint in the U.S. by moving to new locations. read more By Andrea Park A tissue sample was taken from Lacks without her consent in 1951 and was subsequently used to develop the first polio vaccine, HPV vaccines, gene-mapping techniques and more. read more By Kyle LaHucik Contract research organization Syneos Health will buy artificial intelligence company RxDataScience to boost customer performance. The deal follows a September buy of StudyKIK. read more By Arlene Weintraub An oral dengue drug developed by Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit and a Belgian team was effective in mouse models, drastically lowering the number of virus particles in the animals' blood within 24 hours of treatment, the researchers reported. 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