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Mar 18, 2021

Global Blood Therapeutics strikes a deal with Sanofi for sickle cell disease programs As Global Blood Therapeutics works to bring its sickle cell disease drug, Oxbryta, to younger patients, the company is reinforcing its pipeline with a pair of early-stage programs from Sanofi. In exchange for the global righ...

Mar 11, 2021

Valo Health receives USD 110 Million Series B from Koch Valo Health launched in September with USD 100 million and a couple of acquisitions under its belt to transform drug development and cut years off R&D timelines. Now, it is filling with USD 110 million from Koch Disruptive Technologies that will bolster...

Feb 25, 2021

Beam adds to drug delivery stable with USD 120 Million GuideTx buy Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. Beam announced that it paid USD 120 million upfront to acq...

Feb 11, 2021

Verily collaborates with Janssen to launch COVID-19 immune response study Verily is partnering with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen division to witness the body’s earliest immune responses to a coronavirus infection, with people participating in the research from within their homes.  The study will be launche...

Jan 21, 2021

Unshackling the TP53 in leukaemia with a novel combination approach. Drugs that target the cancer-promoting proteins MDM2 and BET have been attempted in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and have not been all that effective on their own. However, they might be useful if they were combined.   Researchers...

Jan 14, 2021

Gilead and Vir Biotechnology Establish Clinical Collaboration  Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Vir Biotechnology, Inc. announced that the companies have entered into a clinical collaboration to assess novel therapeutic combination strategies to develop a functional remedy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). T...

Dec 24, 2020

NIH awards USD 107 Million for radical COVID-19 testing tech  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded over USD 107 million for radical approaches to testing for COVID-19 and tracing the spread of the disease, including cutting-edge technologies, which could make daily coronavirus testing less interf...

Nov 12, 2020

FDA authorizes first diagnostic test for COVID-19 antibodies that obstruct the virus from entering cells The FDA has authorized the first COVID-19 diagnostic test, which identifies whether a person has the specific antibodies known to hinder the coronavirus from entering and infecting human cells. These neutr...

Sep 24, 2020

J&J commences COVID-19 vaccine phase 3 Johnson & Johnson has begun a 60,000-subject phase 3 evaluation of its COVID-19 vaccine. The trial will enroll participants in the U.S. and other countries with a high incidence of COVID-19 to generate data to bolster emergency use authorization early next year. ...

Sep 17, 2020

Lilly links COVID-19 antibody to a reduce hospitalization rate Eli Lilly has linked its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody to a lower rate of hospitalization in patients lately diagnosed with mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. Nevertheless, two of the three doses, including the highest studied in the phase 2 trial, flunk...