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April 04, 2019

Today's Rundown

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Sorrento sues Soon-Shiong over 'catch-and-kill' of its cancer drug, a potential Abraxane rival

Sorrento Therapeutics alleged Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of his companies bought Sorrento's late-phase cancer drug Cynviloq to hamstring its development and prevent the drug from reaching the market in which it would compete with Abraxane, a drug Soon-Shiong invented and sold to Celgene back in 2010.

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Daiichi's Xospata rival pushed back by FDA as it combs through new data

Daiichi Sankyo's PDUFA date for its FLT3 inhibitor has been pushed back to late August. The FDA wants more time to go over new data from the Japanese pharma.

NGM Bio nabs $107M IPO after new Merck deal, poaches Roche executive

Just a week out from the European liver disease conference in Vienna, where you can expect much of the hype to be around nonalcoholic steatohepatitis drugs, fatty liver disease biotech NGM Biopharmaceuticals has got off a $107 million IPO, following in the footsteps of rival GenFit.

[Sponsored] Biotech Companies Explore Alternative Strategies to Fund Growth

Deloitte discusses how biotech companies are exploring alternative strategies to fund growth including IPOs, collaborative arrangements, and share-based payment arrangements.

Ramaswamy's latest 'vant' debuts with Medigene TCR partnership

Cytovant starts out with the Asian rights to two Medigene programs—a T-cell receptor treatment and a dendritic cell vaccine—and a partnership to develop two more TCR programs.

Combating Alzheimer's by restoring the brain's clean-up crew

The brain's microglia scout around the brain for debris such as damaged neurons and protein plaques. A Stanford University team has discovered that CD22 prevents this important function and tuning it down improves cognitive function in aged mice.

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