Kronos Bio Inc. closed a $105 million series A preferred stock financing, shored up by a board composed of longtime pharma executives that includes the company CEO and president, Norbert Bischofberger, the former Gilead Sciences Inc. R&D executive vice president and chief science officer.
Astellas Pharma Inc. and Frequency Therapeutics Inc. have agreed to develop and commercialize Frequency's regenerative therapeutic candidate, FX-322, to treat sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Macrogenics Inc. is taking a further step into Asia as it joins with I-Mab Biopharma (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. in a collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize enoblituzumab, an immune-optimized, anti-B7-H3 monoclonal antibody.
Rising from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland was science that Roche Holding AG's Genentech Inc. could not pass up, so it struck a deal with Convelo Therapeutics Inc. to discover and develop remyelinating medicines for patients with neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
Some new investors pitched in to Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s $121 million series C financing, adding to the industry's vision of the importance of AI and machine learning.
Macrogenics Inc. is taking a further step into Asia as it joins with I-Mab Biopharma (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. in a collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize enoblituzumab, an immune-optimized, anti-B7-H3 monoclonal antibody.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc's acquisition of Redx Pharma plc's pan-RAF inhibitor program for treating RAF- and RAS-mutant tumors was rocket fuel for Redx's stock (AIM:REDX), which closed 108% higher than it opened, offering some relief for the struggling company.
Altimmune Inc. will acquire Spitfire Pharma Inc. and its lead candidate, SP-1373 (to be renamed ALT-801), a GLP-1/glucagon receptor co-agonist for treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Positive data from one clinical trial evaluating lumateperone in patients with bipolar disorder wasn't enough to lift Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc.'s stock Monday as another trial's failure with the same drug severely dampened the price of shares, while analysts took the long, more optimistic view.
The FDA placed a clinical hold Wednesday on a phase I trial by Unum Therapeutics Inc. after a patient experienced serious adverse events that included grade 3 neurotoxicity and cytomegalovirus infection, and grade 4 respiratory distress.