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Dec 16, 2024

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Novo Nordisk blueprints $1.2B rare disease production plant in Denmark, where it plans to hire on 400 new staffers


Roche mothballs another hemophilia A gene therapy under Spark as it plans to debut new hematologic asset


Fluid Biomed raises $27M for its bioabsorbable brain aneurysm stent


Checkpoint Therapeutics takes on Merck's mighty Keytruda with FDA approval for Unloxcyt in skin cancer


BMS keeps axing deals inked under old leadership, this time culling cell therapy pacts with Century, Immatics

 

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Novo Nordisk blueprints $1.2B rare disease production plant in Denmark, where it plans to hire on 400 new staffers

Novo Nordisk is laying out 8.5 billion Danish kroner (about $1.2 billion) to establish a new manufacturing plant in Odense, Denmark, where the company eventually plans to hire on 400 permanent staffers. The modular factory will be kitted out to produce multiple drugs within rare disease indications, including hemophilia.

Roche mothballs another hemophilia A gene therapy under Spark amid plans to debut new hematologic asset

Roche is discontinuing further development of Spark’s experimental hemophilia A gene therapy. A Roche spokesperson told Fierce Biotech that the company is instead introducing a new, enhanced function factor VIII hemophilia A candidate into its gene therapy pipeline.

Fluid Biomed raises $27M for its bioabsorbable brain aneurysm stent

Developed by neurosurgeons at the University of Calgary, the hybrid polymer-metal ReSolv stent slows the flow of blood to form a clot within the aneurysm.

Checkpoint Therapeutics takes on Merck's mighty Keytruda with FDA approval for Unloxcyt in skin cancer

Another checkpoint inhibitor has entered the fray, as Checkpoint Therapeutics has passed the FDA’s checkpoint with its PD-L1 inhibitor cosibelimab.

BMS keeps axing deals inked under old leadership, this time culling cell therapy pacts with Century, Immatics

Bristol Myers Squibb has terminated cell therapy pacts with two biotechs amid "ongoing portfolio prioritization efforts” within the Big Pharma, one of the affected companies said.

Neurocrine's Crenessity ends 70-year drought with FDA nod for rare genetic disease

After seven decades with no advances in the treatment of the genetic disorder classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), Neurocrine Biosciences has scored an FDA approval for its first-in-class medicine Crenessity.

Candid Therapeutics unwraps three new collaborations to discover and develop T-cell engager antibodies

Candid Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech bent on becoming a leader in the emerging T-cell engager space, has unwrapped three new research collaborations focusing on autoimmune diseases.

Novo Holdings set to close $16.5B Catalent buy in 'coming days' after deal clears antitrust hurdles

The companies have "fulfilled all regulatory closing conditions" for the pending buyout, according to a Saturday press release.
 
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