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Today's Rundown Gilead’s Kite bags option to buy gamma delta startup Gadeta Novartis pays €95M to bag dermatitis drug from Galapagos, MorphoSys Stripped-down Vical ‘considering options’ after pipeline woes Gritstone, Bristol-Myers Squibb to trial immunotherapy combos in solid tumors IFM Therapeutics' inflammation-focused subsidiary debuts with $31M Johns Hopkins startup Neuraly plans phase 1 Parkinson’s trial with $36M round Hospital antibiotic developer Aridis files for $34.5M IPO Featured Story | | | Thursday, July 19, 2018 Gilead’s Kite Pharma has snagged an option to buy gamma delta T-cell receptor startup Gadeta. The deal sees Kite take a stake in Gadeta and commit to milestones tied to the progress of oncology candidates. |
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Top Stories Thursday, July 19, 2018 Novartis is set to pay €95 million ($110 million) upfront for the global rights to Galapagos and MorphoSys’ anti-IL-17C antibody MOR106. The deal positions Novartis to take MOR106 forward in atopic dermatitis and other indications, handing over up to €850 million in milestones as it goes. Thursday, July 19, 2018 After a string of pipeline failures, Vical has called in advisers to help decide the future of the company. The move comes just over a month after Vical abandoned work on a genital herpes vaccine following a negative phase 2 trial. Thursday, July 19, 2018 Gritstone Oncology and Bristol-Myers Squibb will test the former's personalized neoantigen treatment in combination with the latter's Opdivo and Yervoy in patients with advanced solid tumors. Thursday, July 19, 2018 IFM Therapeutics is hiving off its NLRP3 stable into a subsidiary dubbed IFM Tre, which expects to advance its lead asset into phase 1 next year. Wednesday, July 18, 2018 A new startup from Johns Hopkins has launched with $36 million in financing, in the pursuit of disease-modifying agents for Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Thursday, July 19, 2018 Immunotherapy developer Aridis Pharmaceuticals has filed for a $34.5 million IPO as it plans to move its fully human antibodies for hospital-related infections into late-phase clinical trials. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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