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Featured Story | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Novartis has licensed CAR-T patents from bluebird bio and Celyad. The agreements give Novartis the nonexclusive right to use intellectual property related to bluebird’s lentiviral vector platform and Celyad’s off-the-shelf CAR-T technology. |
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Top Stories | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 It was only six months ago, in a unique matchup, that venture capital firms Atlas and Third Rock came together in a $48.5 million Series A to create and launch Magenta Therapeutics; now, the upstart has added more cash, a new drug and a key collab for its Series B as it looks to waste no time boosting its clinical work. |
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| Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Alongside its first-quarter financials today, Pfizer also sneaked in details of its “discontinued projects,” which includes meds from its CV and metabolism pipeline and from its neuroscience unit. |
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Monday, April 24, 2017 It’s a critical tradeoff for life. Our bodies use sugar and fat from the food we consume to produce energy in our cells’ mitochondria, the internal powerhouses that give us the energy we need for all our vital functions. | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Sunesis Pharmaceuticals has been forced to concede defeat in its bid to bring vosaroxin to the E.U. market for acute myeloid leukemia, in a near carbon copy of what happened with the FDA two years ago. |
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| Tuesday, May 2, 2017 CureVac has hired Daniel Menichella as CEO of its Boston-based subsidiary. The appointment gives the mRNA specialist and Moderna rival a dealmaker last seen helping Bamboo Therapeutics to a $645 million (€591 million) takeover by Pfizer. |
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| Monday, May 1, 2017 Scientists at Sanford Burnham have identified the mechanism that causes muscle cells to stop regenerating as people age. This knowledge could lead to methods to slow—but not stop—the decline in muscle mass and function as people get older. |
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| Monday, May 1, 2017 A jury in Philadelphia has awarded $20 million in damages to a plaintiff who claimed that her pelvic mesh implant, made by J&J’s Ethicon unit, failed and caused her injury. |
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| Monday, May 1, 2017 AstraZeneca is officially on the board with checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi, which nabbed its first FDA approval Monday. The British pharma giant picked up an accelerated green light in urothelial carcinoma, and with it, it becomes the third Big Pharma player to enter the advanced bladder cancer space with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor. |
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| | | Stealth BioTherapeutics has revealed the start of its phase 1/2 study of SBT-20, a drug that works by restoring the properties of dysfunctional mitochondria, for early stage Huntington's disease. Release Altor BioScience Corporation has been given an FDA "Fast Track" tag for its IL-15 agonist complex, ALT-803, in combo with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, for patients with bladder cancer. Statement Concert Pharmaceuticals has kick-started a phase 2a test for CTP-543 in alopecia areata, a disorder in which the immune system attacks hair follicles and can lead to complete hair loss, with topline data expected in around a year. Release | |
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