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Today's Rundown AstraZeneca cans cancer pipeline efforts China's CICC Capital raises $229M biologic investment fund Immunomedics nabs J&J veteran for CMO as it presses on with ADC redo Melinta seeks buyout bids to secure escape from bankruptcy Novimmune unit nabs Takeda milestone payment for hemophilia work Targeting the 'clock gene' in obesity to slow triple-negative breast cancer EuroBiotech Report—Ipsen's woes, Roche failure, Chiesi, Bayer and Woodford FiercePharmaAsia—Gilead remdesivir's copy; Enhertu's early launch; Tecentriq's China nod Chutes & Ladders—Ex-Pfizer R&D head Abraham joins Vividion Featured Story | | | Friday, February 14, 2020 In its fourth-quarter earnings out early Friday morning, U.K.-based Big Pharma AstraZeneca has cut two early-stage experimental meds. |
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Top Stories Friday, February 14, 2020 CICC Capital has raised a RMB 1.6 billion ($229 million) biologic investment fund. The fund received money from Chinese organizations inside and outside the biopharma industry, enabling CICC Capital to ease past its financing target. Friday, February 14, 2020 For the last year, biopharma veteran Loretta Itri, M.D. has been helping Immunomedics out with its troubled antibody-drug conjugate, sacituzumab govitecan. Now, she’s signing on with the company full-time as its new chief medical officer. Itri joins from The Medicines Company, where she oversaw global health sciences and medical affairs. Friday, February 14, 2020 A U.S. bankruptcy court has given groups interested in buying antibiotic biotech Melinta Therapeutics until March 2 to make an offer. The bidding process creates an opportunity for Melinta’s business to continue as a going concern despite its financial difficulties. Friday, February 14, 2020 Light Chain Bioscience, a unit of Swiss biotech Novimmune, has been handed a nice royalty milestone check from partner Takeda. Friday, February 14, 2020 Scientists at City of Hope discovered that prediabetic and obese mice that lacked the BMAL1 protein, which is made by a gene involved in circadian rhythms, suffered from accelerated tumor growth in triple-negative breast cancer. They believe the finding could point to new treatment targets, as well as prevention strategies for overweight people. Thursday, February 13, 2020 In this week's EuroBiotech Report, Ipsen takes €669 million hit, Roche Alzheimer's drug fails trial and Chiesi creates rare disease unit. Friday, February 14, 2020 A Chinese drugmaker has started mass producing a generic to Gilead's remdesivir without any licensing agreement. HER2-targeting Enhertu has got off to a fast start, Daiichi Sankyo U.S. chief said. Roche's Tecentriq won approval in China in first-line small cell lung cancer. And more. Friday, February 14, 2020 Vividion nabs ex-Pfizer R&D head Abraham; Lu takes CMO role at Pharvaris; Enterprise taps Morris as medical head. | | [Survey] Bioavailability Toolkit Share insight on the drug developer’s perspective on bioavailability enhancement technologies and the reasoning behind the use of certain technologies in preclinical and early-stage clinical development. Take survey. |
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