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Quralis licenses QRL-204 to Lilly for up to $622M

June 3, 2024
By Brian Orelli
With its hands full developing QRL-101 and QRL-201, both in clinical trials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with plans to expand into other neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, Quralis Corp. has decided to out-license its preclinical ALS and FTD drug, QRL-204.
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Altrubio’s approach to autoimmune diseases draws $225M series B

May 21, 2024
By Brian Orelli
Altrubio Inc. secured up to $225 million in an oversubscribed series B financing round, led by BVF Partners LP. The full amount is dependent on Altrubio meeting certain undisclosed milestones. New investors RA Capital Management, Cormorant Asset Management and Soleus Capital, and existing investors Amoon Fund and Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing, as well as other new and existing investors, also participated in the financing round.
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Biocom 2024: Pharma looking for deals to be done

March 4, 2024
By Brian Orelli
With valuations heading higher, pharmaceutical companies are looking to make deals. “The M&A environment has kind of woken up a little bit,” Jay Stamatis, vice president and head of business development and acquisitions at Abbvie Inc., told the audience at Biocom California’s Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference.
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Biocom California: VCs dish advice to startups

March 1, 2024
By Brian Orelli
Venture capitalists (VCs) on three different panels at Biocom California’s Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference gave advice to startups on a range of topics from what they’re looking for before investing to what startups should be doing to find pharma partners.
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Biocom 2024: Developing new AI capabilities (and maybe going faster, too)

Feb. 28, 2024
By Brian Orelli
Biocom California’s Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference kicked off with a panel discussion focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery. While there’s been a lot of hype over how AI and machine learning have the potential to help companies speed up drug development, panelists hypothesized the largest opportunities are in developing new capabilities, potentially increasing the success rate going from discovery to regulatory approval.
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Bridgene nabs Galapagos in a $700M multitarget oncology discovery deal

Jan. 4, 2024
By Brian Orelli
Following up on a 2021 partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Bridgene Biosciences Inc. has signed up a second international drug company, Galapagos NV, to use its chemoproteomic platform, IMTAC (Isobaric Mass Tagged Affinity Characterization), to discover small-molecule drug candidates.
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ASH 2023: Multiple new dosing regimens for multiple myeloma

Dec. 12, 2023
By Brian Orelli
Multiple studies at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2023 have the potential to change the treatment paradigm for first-line treatment of multiple myeloma.
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ASH 2023: Syndax makes splash in cGVHD and leukemia

Dec. 12, 2023
By Brian Orelli
It’s not every day you see a small drug company’s presentations get picked for both the plenary session and the late-breaker session at a conference, but Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc. managed to do just that at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2023 – with a little help from a friend.
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ASH 2023: CAR T therapies take on autoimmune diseases

Dec. 11, 2023
By Brian Orelli
CAR T-cell therapies have worked well at curing blood malignancies, but a group out of the University Hospital of Erlangen have repurposed the technology as a treatment for autoimmune diseases. The expansion into new diseases has required cooperation between multiple departments, with CAR T experts taking the lead on treatment and potential side effects, and rheumatologists measuring the outcomes of the treatment.
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Biocom 2023: There’s science going on 250 miles above your head

March 7, 2023
By Brian Orelli
Performing experiments and potentially manufacturing products in space offers some unique advantages in a near-zero gravity environment. Space changes buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure and convective heat flow. Researchers are studying how those changes affect cells, but also looking to take advantage of the changes to create products in manufacturing processes that wouldn’t be possible on earth.
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