1:43 PM Jan 18, 2019
BioCentury  |  Product Development

ImmunoGen’s milestone year

Nearly three years after refocusing the company to boost long-term value creation, ImmunoGen Inc. expects 2019 to be the year the changes will begin to bear fruit, starting with Phase III data...

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1:22 PM Jan 18, 2019
BioCentury  |  Politics, Policy & Law

Pharma falling off budget cliff

Three strong arms are lining up in Washington to take turns whacking the biopharma piñata. Divisions within the industry, a lack of new ideas, and resistance to change are making a bad situation...

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7:40 PM Jan 17, 2019
BC Innovations  |  Product R&D

Modality moves at Vertex

In licensing a suite of newly discovered gene editing tools, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is broadening its options for solving problems that its core small molecule technology can’t address.

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6:20 PM Jan 17, 2019
BC Innovations  |  Targets & Mechanisms

Exploring 3-D genomic white space

Gene regulation is offering a new class of targets that operate on a higher level than DNA sequences and epigenetic markers: 3-D genomic structures. While strategies to drug the 3-D genome are...

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5:03 PM Jan 11, 2019
BioCentury  |  Finance

Warning: cash needed

A near decade-long run of cheap money appears to be coming to a close, and most of the biotech sector isn’t well positioned for the new reality.

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4:30 PM Jan 18, 2019

Celgene bolsters immuno-metabolism, immune cell toolbox with Kyn, Obsidian deals

Partnerships with Boston area biotechs Kyn Therapeutics Inc. and Obsidian Therapeutics Inc. announced late...

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3:39 PM Jan 18, 2019

AbbVie's Imbruvica misses pancreatic cancer endpoints

AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) said late Friday Imbruvica ibrutinib missed the co-primary endpoints in the Phase...

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3:38 PM Jan 18, 2019

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Companies that won tender bids for China's pilot program for centralized procurement of generic drugs will...

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3:00 PM Jan 18, 2019

Grassley squeezes government on foreign IP theft

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12:38 PM Jan 18, 2019

Agency moves to tamp down on coupons in exchange plans

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CMS aims to spread risk of catastrophic coverage

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6:04 AM Jan 18, 2019

FDA delays approval of Immunomedics' ADC for triple-negative breast cancer

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Lartruvo fails confirmatory study; Lilly suspending promotion

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4:35 PM Jan 17, 2019

ICER to probe for clinical justification of drug price hikes

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review unveiled more details on its plans to evaluate whether...

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4:31 PM Jan 17, 2019

BIO, NVCA urge U.S. to ensure export controls won't hinder innovation

BIO has asked the U.S. Department of Commerce to consider the full impact export controls would have on...

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4:08 PM Jan 17, 2019

Novartis to scale up data science under AI deal with Oxford

Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS; SIX:NOVN) and the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute (BDI) will use...

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3:51 PM Jan 17, 2019

Gilead, Genentech join PhRMA

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3:28 PM Jan 17, 2019

Spectrum divesting marketed products to focus on late-stage programs

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Boehringer taps BioMed X to source psychiatric disease research proposals

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Management tracks: eGenesis names Sekhri CEO

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Mirati, Revance price follow-ons

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1:04 PM Jan 17, 2019

NIH to bring iPS cell therapy into clinic for dry macular degeneration

Researchers at NIH's National Eye Institute (NEI) developed clinical-grade protocols for producing an...

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FDA removes a barrier to OTC naloxone development

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4:53 PM Jan 16, 2019

Phoenix, Roche partner to develop TNBC biomarker

Phoenix Molecular Designs (Vancouver, B.C.) and Roche (SIX:ROG; OTCQX:RHHBY) partnered on Wednesday to...

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3:59 PM Jan 16, 2019

Juvenescence raises first tranche of $100M series B

Juvenescence Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man) raised $46 million in the first tranche of a $100 million series...

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