Featured Story | By Kyle LaHucik The SEC charged former Immunomedics Chief Financial Officer Usama Malik with insider trading during his time at the biopharma, now owned by Gilead. As a result, Malik was fired as CEO and director of his current employer, Fore Biotherapeutics, where he lasted less than a year. read more |
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Top Stories By Ben Adams In one of the biggest funding rounds for a European biotech ever, Czech Republic cancer company Sotio Biotech has grabbed a huge 280 million euro ($316 million) raise. read more By Nick Paul Taylor AviadoBio has come flying out the traps surrounded by A-list names. Incubated at F-Prime Capital and Johnson & Johnson’s JJDC, AviadoBio exited stealth with $80 million from backers such as New Enterprise Associates and a C-suite led by Novartis veteran Lisa Deschamps. read more Sponsored by: Thermo Scientific™ Production Chemicals and Services Accelerate development by focusing on optimizing an entire biomanufacturing workflow. Thermo Scientific Production Chemicals and Services shares insights on how to achieve successful scale-up. read more By Nick Paul Taylor The BeyondSpring roller coaster has plunged downward again. While BeyondSpring wowed investors with its phase 3 lung cancer data in August, the FDA found less to like in another indication, rejecting the drug on the grounds that the single registrational trial was too flimsy to show the drug’s benefit. read more By Andrea Park Nearly two years after the Trump administration tasked private health insurers with reimbursing the total costs of point-of-care COVID tests and health services, Biden will expand that requirement to include at-home tests, too. read more By Robert King The PCMA pulled a federal lawsuit that challenged a Trump administration rule that required PBMs to publicly release drug rebate amounts. read more By Kevin Dunleavy Australian biotech giant CSL is negotiating with Vifor Pharma to acquire the Swiss company for A$10 billion ($7.1 billion), says the Australian Financial Review. The acquisition would become the largest ever for CSL. read more By Angus Liu Novo Nordisk, Sanofi and Eli Lilly offered big discounts for their insulin products in China. Astellas teamed up with Dyno Therapeutics on viral vectors for gene therapy. Fujifilm is lining up $530 million to expand its U.K. facility. And more. read more By Kyle LaHucik GlaxoSmithKline poached Pfizer's RNA and viral vaccines leader Phil Dormitzer, M.D., Ph.D., to shore up its vaccine business as it's lost many research staffers this past year. Parthenon Therapeutics snagged Johnson & Johnson's global head of cell therapy platform and discovery, Tamas Oravecz, Ph.D. And Rafael parted ways with five execs and reinstalled telecom tycoon Howard Jonas as CEO. read more Resources Sponsored by: BBK Worldwide Create more inclusive clinical trials, enroll them faster, and keep participants engaged longer with the latest Study Voices survey results and insights. 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