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January 09, 2019

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With new data, new targets, Tmunity Therapeutics to gather steam in 2019

Nearly a year after Tmunity Therapeutics raised $100 million to develop better and safer T cell treatments, the company is getting ready to present data, unveil new targets and boost its headcount in 2019.

Top Stories

New year, new Axovant: CEO Cheruvu on the company's gene therapy pivot

Since Pavan Cheruvu—formerly Roivant’s chief people officer—took Axovant’s helm in February 2018, the company has been plugging away at becoming a gene therapy player.

Rewiring R&D: The FierceBiotech JPM 2019 breakfast debate

SAN FRANCISCO—We certainly like to offer a full breakfast here at FierceBiotech, especially at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, where attendees have probably had to get a second mortgage for a three-day hotel stay.

[Sponsored] The Patient-Centered Era is the Critical Next Step in Biopharmaceutical Evolution

Biopharmaceutical science has the capability to drive change in our society and write a new storyline for public health. However, science alone will not achieve this change. So what can?

Basilea posts interim pivotal data on ArQule-partnered cancer drug

Basilea Pharmaceutica has shared interim data from a registrational trial of ArQule-partnered cancer drug derazantinib. The oral FGFR kinase inhibitor achieved an objective response rate of 21% in the first 29 evaluable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma patients enrolled in the study.

UroGen’s UGN-101 clears 57% of tumors in pivotal trial

UroGen Pharma’s UGN-101 has triggered durable complete responses in 57% of the low-grade upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients enrolled in its phase 3 trial. The readout from the ongoing pivotal trial comes as UroGen performs a rolling NDA under the leadership of new CEO Liz Barrett.  

Roche oncology VP to take the reins at Foundation Medicine

Roche’s senior VP of global oncology product strategy, Cindy Perettie, is jumping over to become the next CEO of Foundation Medicine, which the Big Pharma acquired last year through a $2.4 billion buyout.

With Tesaro in the bag, GSK's cancer pipeline is pumping again, CEO says

When she put cancer back on the front burner, GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley gave the company a big task. After all, GSK had traded away most of its oncology assets to Novartis. But with its $5 billion Tesaro buy and in-house candidates, the pipeline is pumping, she says.

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[Infographic] Clinical Development Trends And The Impact On Clinical Trial Technology

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[eBook] Digital Workflows: How to Focus Investment to Cut Costs and Drive Growth

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[Whitepaper] Why Life Sciences Companies Leverage Managed Regulated Infrastructures

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[eBook] 2018 Weekly Compendium

The Biopharma industry is moving at lightning speed and it can be a challenge to keep pace. Here at Biotech Primer we spend hours each week researching, writing, and editing original content for the Biotech Primer WEEKLY with one goal in mind: to help everyone better understand the latest science and technology driving today’s healthcare industry.

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