Today's Rundown MiMedx’s leadership begins to unravel following internal and external investigations I-Mab closes one of China’s biggest-ever biotech fundraisings Liquidia files for IPO to challenge United Therapeutics in PAH Athenex rakes in $100M, sets up Chinese TCR-focused JV PredictImmune names Paul Kinnon as CEO NHS Digital inks deal with Privitar to protect patient info in the NHS system Pfizer chastised for missing risks in pharma ad police's second letter of 2018 Featured Story | | | Monday, July 2, 2018 MiMedx’s board of directors has decided to replace its president and its CEO as a result of an ongoing internal investigation and federal probes into its accounting and sales compliance practices, less than a month after the company said it would need to restate five years’ worth of financial disclosures. |
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Top Stories Monday, July 2, 2018 China’s I-Mab Biopharma just raised a massive $220 million in a third-round fundraising that once again reveals the growing strength of the country’s emerging biotech sector. Monday, July 2, 2018 Liquidia Technologies has filed for a $57.5 million IPO to take its twist on United Therapeutics’ Tyvaso through phase 3. The experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate is a dry powder formulation of the active ingredient in Tyvaso. Monday, July 2, 2018 Athenex is picking up a $100 million investment from Perceptive Advisors, licensing a modified cancer-fighting enzyme and launching a new Chinese joint venture built around T-cell receptor (TCR) technology. Monday, July 2, 2018 PredictImmune has named Paul Kinnon as its CEO. Kinnon, a former Life Technologies VP, has spent most of the past decade running diagnostic businesses Transgenomic and ZyGEM. Monday, July 2, 2018 NHS Digital, which provides information, data and IT services for the U.K.’s National Health Service, inked a deal with privacy engineering software provider Privitar to up its game in protecting patient information. Monday, July 2, 2018 Pharma's promo enforcers at the FDA slapped Pfizer with an untitled letter—only their second this year—for skipping risk information in a video for its postmenopausal hormonal drug Estring. Enrollment Showcase | | | Sponsored by: Bioinformatics at UTHealth SBMI UTHealth SBMI now offers a M.S. track in clinical and translational bioinformatics. |
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