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Top Stories Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Less than a week after stumping up cash for a one-drug-wonder biotech (and an option to buy it out), Japan’s Takeda has struck another biotech deal, this time with Belgium-based TiGenix. Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Insys Therapeutics has gained an FDA approval for the latest iteration of synthetic THC--a liquid formulation of dronabinol, a pharmaceutical version of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Tuesday, July 5, 2016 China upstart CStone Pharma has raised a major $150 million in a Series A funding drive as it looks to boost its research in immuno-oncology. Tuesday, July 5, 2016 This spring, Aprecia Pharmaceuticals launched the first 3-D printed pharmaceutical product to be approved by the FDA. It’s now secured $30 million in debt to aid that launch and bring forward more 3-D printed fast-melt formulations. Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Johnson & Johnson has exercised its option to license FR104 from OSE Immunotherapeutics. The agreement, which follows shortly after the conclusion of a Phase I trial of FR104, sees J&J commit to pay up to €155 million for the global rights to the CD28 antagonist in autoimmune diseases and transplantations. | | | Israeli biotech Can-Fite BioPharma’s subsidiary, OphthaliX, missed its primary endpoint in top-line results from its Phase II clinical trial of CF101 in glaucoma. Release. Cambridge, MA-based Warp Drive Bio has appointed biotech veteran and former GlycoMimetics CEO Rachel King to its board of directors. Statement. Ireland-based Prothena Corporation has posted new data from the Phase I/II dose-escalation and expansion study of NEOD001, its lead program as a potential disease-modifying therapy for AL amyloidosis. Release. The FDA has accepted an NDA from Chapel Hill, NC-based Cempra for Solithera (solithromycin) as a treatment for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. Statement. Biogen and AbbVie’s new, once-monthly multiple sclerosis jab Zinbryta (daclizumab) has been approved in Europe. Release. | |
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