Today's Rundown Biogen pays $27.5M upfront for 2 AliveGen muscle drugs Merck posts 96-week doravirine HIV data as PDUFA date nears Bristol-Myers Squibb, Tsinghua University pen drug discovery pact [Sponsored] Q&A with Cardinal Health Regulatory Sciences: Navigating cell and gene therapies through clinical and regulatory hurdles Gossamer Bio nets $230M in series B to advance portfolio against undisclosed targets Enzyvant and PerkinElmer to develop gene test for ultrarare Farber disease Synexus debuts new patient registry in U.S. for study of longitudinal brain aging Featured Story | | | Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Biogen has bolted on a couple of early-stage drug candidates for neuromuscular diseases via a $535 million deal with California startup AliveGen. |
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Top Stories Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Merck has posted 96-week data on an HIV prospect it hopes will replace drugs including Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Sustiva in combination regimens. The update linked Merck’s doravirine to a higher rate of viral suppression than a combination of antiretroviral drugs from AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson. Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Bristol-Myers Squibb has teamed up with China’s Tsinghua University to discover drugs that hit novel cancer and autoimmune disease targets. The agreement tasks Tsinghua with discovering therapeutics that Bristol-Myers can then choose to license. Monday, July 23, 2018 Gene and cell therapies are at the cutting-edge of biomedical research, promising potentially curative options for a host of disorders such as forms of blindness, blood cancers and inherited diseases. Monday, July 23, 2018 Gossamer Bio netted $230 million in a series B financing round—on the heels of its $100 million launch in January—to accelerate the company’s growth and fund clinical trials of candidates with undisclosed targets in immunology, inflammation, immuno-oncology and fibrosis. Monday, July 23, 2018 Roivant Sciences’ rare disease offshoot, Enzyvant, is partnering up with PerkinElmer Genomics to develop a test for the genetic mutations associated with Farber disease, an ultrarare lysosomal storage disorder. Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Synexus, a global site management organization, is partnering with the University of Exeter in the U.K. to launch a registry-based study in the U.S. to better understand how healthy brains age. | This week's sponsor is IQVIA. | | | |
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