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Vertex takes the lead in CRISPR Therapeutics partnership with $900M upfront

Vertex has boosted an agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics to $900 million upfront as the companies race to beat bluebird bio to the market with a new gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia called CTX001.

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Gossamer Bio CSO hits the exit after turbulent year, research exec steps up

As Gossamer Bio seeks partners to keep its failed DP2 inhibitor afloat, the company is losing its top scientist. Luisa Salter-Cid, Ph.D., the Bristol Myers Squibb veteran who joined Gossamer in September 2018, will leave on April 30, making way for Laura Carter, Ph.D.

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Ovid dumps lead program after lackluster showing in Angelman syndrome

Just weeks after handing full control of its Takeda-partnered epilepsy program back to the Japanese pharma, Ovid Therapeutics is pulling the plug on its lead program, OV101, a treatment that was under development for Angelman syndrome and Fragile X syndrome. Now, the company’s focus turns to its earlier-stage pipeline.

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Sponsored: Why Integrated Partners are Critical to Cell and Gene Therapy Success

Working with the right integrated partner can help ease increasingly common problems with scale, access to high-demand raw material, viral vector production and quality requirements. 

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Forbion closes final European life sciences funding round at €360M with help from Eli Lilly

Using the tailwinds of the pandemic, Forbion has raised a healthy €360 million ($428 million) to invest in a range of late-stage European life sciences companies.

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KalVista hit with a clinical hold on 2nd asset as fortunes ebb and flow

A midstage test of KalVista Pharmaceuticals’ hereditary angioedema hopeful KVD824 has been slapped with an FDA clinical hold as it demands more preclinical data and changes to its protocol.

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Virta Health hits $2B valuation with $133M funding to expand reach of diabetes-reversing platform

The world may not yet have the technology to turn back time, but Virta Health is hoping its telehealth platform will do the trick for users with Type 2 diabetes.

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With the competition struggling, Pfizer's COVID vaccine sales could hit $24B this year: analyst

With the COVID-19 vaccine landscape shifting in favor of mRNA shots, Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal predicts $24 billion in sales for Pfizer and $14 billion for Moderna this year. The prediction comes amid setbacks for the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Report: New research indicates an accelerated shift to decentralized clinical trials

New research indicates an accelerated adoption of decentralized clinical trials due to COVID-19.

Whitepaper: Roche to pick up GenMark Diagnostics in $1.8B infectious disease testing deal

Roche has inked a $1.8 billion, all-cash deal for GenMark Diagnostics, to acquire its molecular tests designed to screen patient samples for multiple infections simultaneously.

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Report: New research indicates an accelerated shift to decentralized clinical trials

New research indicates an accelerated adoption of decentralized clinical trials due to COVID-19.

Executive Summary: Manufacturing Strategies to Effectively Industrialize Autologous Cell Therapies

Autologous cell therapies have seen propelled growth since 2017, with the spotlight on the first FDA approval of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy, Kymriah® (tisagenlecleucel), for the treatment of relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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