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Dec 4, 2023

Roche muscles in on obesity market with $2.7B Carmot buyout, securing injectable and oral assets


Amgen-backed Seismic shakes up $121M financing for preclinical immunology programs


Merck KGaA buys into Abbisko’s late-stage joint tumor med for $70M upfront


AstraZeneca types up $247M, AI-enabled oncology antibody design pact, joining Absci’s list of pharma allies


'Fascinating and completely unexpected': Tiny 'superbots' heal neural wound model

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Roche muscles in on obesity market with $2.7B Carmot buyout, securing injectable and oral assets

Roche is paying $2.7 billion upfront to enter the obesity market. The takeover will give Roche control of Carmot Therapeutics, a biotech with injectable dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists and an oral GLP-1 drug in clinical development.
 

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Amgen-backed Seismic shakes up $121M financing for preclinical immunology programs

Seismic Therapeutic has secured a series B of significant magnitude, snagging $121 million and new investor Amgen Ventures in a round aimed at pushing two immunology programs into the clinic.

Merck KGaA buys into Abbisko’s late-stage joint tumor med for $70M upfront

Merck KGaA’s year-long quest to become leaner and rely more on external innovation has led to a $70 million partnership with Chinese biotech Abbisko Therapeutics for rights to a late-stage joint tumor med called pimicotinib.

Talking cancer immunotherapy with Cell Signaling Technology

CST fellow Amrik Singh outlines some of the key progress being made around CAR-T therapy and the impact that this highly specialized technique can have on cancer patients, even those who have been previously unresponsive to other forms of treatment.

AstraZeneca types up $247M, AI-enabled oncology antibody design pact, joining Absci’s list of pharma allies

The artificial intelligence (AI) deals keep coming. AstraZeneca is the latest drugmaker to open its wallet, agreeing to pay Absci up to $247 million to collaborate on the design of an anti-cancer antibody.

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IQVIA’s new technologies are changing clinical trials, reducing the administrative burden on staff and improving insights for sponsors.

'Fascinating and completely unexpected': Tiny 'superbots' heal neural wound model

Researchers have used unaltered human tracheal cells to create self-assembling multicellular robots capable of healing wounded neurons in a petri dish.

Lilly's Jaypirca blazes leukemia trail with FDA nod, fast confirmatory trial filing

As AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and BeiGene are battling it out in the same BTK inhibitor market, Eli Lilly is trailblazing a new path for the blood cancer drug class with an accelerated approval in post BTK/BCL-2 chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Digital kidney monitor maker Potrero Medical files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The former Fierce Medtech Fierce 15 winner announced it has begun to voluntarily restructure its equity through pre-negotiated terms filed in Delaware bankruptcy court.

NASH market fattening up as wait for liver treatments drags on

The unmet need in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is getting bigger and bigger. Over the decade up to 2032, the number of diagnosed cases in seven major markets is forecast to grow by 4.5 million, creating a bigger pie for the drugmakers that ultimately crack the troublesome indication.

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