Flagship’s Sail Bio lays off 12 staffers

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Apr 2, 2025

FDA’s Chief Medical Officer Hilary Marston is out amid mass layoffs


Atsena raises $150M for ocular gene therapies with Bain, Sofinnova in tow


Flagship-backed Sail Biomedicines lays off staff following review of organizational structure


Sanofi taps Nurix for pipeline nourishment once again, picking up autoimmune degrader for $15M


Edgewise claims heart valve pressure benefits in phase 2 trial for potential Camzyos rival


Patient suffers side effect in Cabaletta autoimmune CAR-T trial, but analysts unfazed

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FDA’s Chief Medical Officer Hilary Marston is out amid mass layoffs

The FDA’s Chief Medical Officer Hilary Marston, M.D., is leaving her position at the agency amid huge cuts to staff across the FDA.
 

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Atsena raises $150M for ocular gene therapies with Bain, Sofinnova in tow

Atsena Therapeutics has raised $150 million in an oversubscribed series C financing, with hopes that the funds can carry the biotech’s gene therapy designed to reverse or prevent blindness through a potential market approval.       

Flagship-backed Sail Biomedicines lays off staff following review of organizational structure

Flagship Pioneering-backed Sail Biomedicines has laid off 12 employees following a review of the company’s organizational structure, a Sail spokesperson confirmed in an email to Fierce Biotech, leaving 125 staff still employed.

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Sanofi taps Nurix for pipeline nourishment once again, picking up autoimmune degrader for $15M

Sanofi has returned to Nurix Therapeutics for another autoimmune candidate, paying $15 million and committing up to $465 million for exclusive rights to a degrader of a once-undruggable transcription factor.

Edgewise claims heart valve pressure benefits in phase 2 trial for potential Camzyos rival

Edgewise Therapeutics' hypertrophic cardiomyopathy asset has resulted in “rapid and clinically meaningful” reductions of a measure of obstruction of the heart’s valves.

Patient suffers side effect in Cabaletta autoimmune CAR-T trial, but analysts unfazed

Analysts appeared unfazed by the news that a patient treated with Cabaletta Bio’s autoimmune CAR-T suffered a toxicity complication during a phase 1/2 trial.

AstraZeneca, Memorial Sloan Kettering adopt tech firm's data capture tool for phase 3 trial

AstraZeneca and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have tapped digital health tech company IgniteData to provide an automated data capture tool for a phase 3 clinical trial.

Axsome's Sunosi comes up short in trial but shows promise in treating MDD with daytime sleepiness

A week after reporting a successful phase 3 trial of Sunosi (solriamfetol) in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Axsome Therapeutics has unveiled mixed results for the same compound in a study in patients with major depressive disorder.

2 investment firms secure large stakes in Novotech

Two investment firms have acquired large stakes in global CRO Novotech, the Singapore-based company announced March 30.
 
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