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Today's Rundown Amid C-suite shake-up, Gilead nabs Genentech exec as new CMO After leadership shuffle, Akcea hands heart drug to Pfizer for $250M Nobel Prize in medicine goes to oxygen sensing research [Sponsored] Thwarting Subjectivity in Clinical Trials Early readout from small NGM study shows NASH drug hits liver fat, but shares fall Atlas unveils RNA-editing Korro Bio helmed by Nessan Bermingham Oxford spinout MiroBio bags £27M for autoimmune R&D U.K. launches trial of Boston Pharma's resistance-busting combo in triple-negative breast cancer Featured Story | | | Monday, October 7, 2019 After a series of major exits from its C-suite last year and this year including the exit of Chief Medical Officer Andrew Cheng last fall, Gilead now has a new CMO as it also rejigs its R&D reporting line. |
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Top Stories Monday, October 7, 2019 After an unexpected game of executive musical chairs, Akcea Therapeutics has inked a deal with a potential rival. For $250 million upfront, Akcea is licensing an antisense therapy to Pfizer for “certain cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.” Monday, October 7, 2019 Researchers who advanced understanding of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The research could inform development of treatments for diseases including anemia, cancer and stroke. Monday, October 7, 2019 A clinical trial is a measurement system, but too often, we fail to calibrate the most significant of measurement instruments: trial participants. Monday, October 7, 2019 Expectations for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis are still sky-high—some see tens of billions for any drug that gets it right at peak—but the reality of clinical trials assessing fatty liver assets has been a lot murkier. Monday, October 7, 2019 Nearly two years after handing over the reins of Intellia Therapeutics, Nessan Bermingham has landed in the CEO chair of another Atlas company: Korro Bio, which is working on RNA-modifying treatments based on nucleotide deamination. Monday, October 7, 2019 MiroBio has raised £27 million ($33 million) to fund research into immune cell regulation. The series A round will bankroll efforts to develop antibodies that treat autoimmune diseases by stimulating specific immune cell signals. Monday, October 7, 2019 A drug from Boston Pharmaceuticals called BOS172722 causes cancer cells to divide too rapidly and die. The medicine combined with chemo was effective in mouse models of triple-negative breast cancer and is being tested in a phase 1 trial in the U.K. Resources Sponsored by: Medidata Simplified filing, improved oversight, audit readiness: is your eTMF system delivering best-in-class benefits? 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