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Michael Fitzhugh

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Lilly strikes $456M oncology deal with China's Innovent

March 23, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Eli Lilly and Co. is tapping China's Innovent Biologics Inc. to develop and manufacture a strategic portfolio of potential cancer therapies in one of the largest biotech collaborations between a multinational and a domestic drugmaker in China to date.
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Assembly Biosciences raising $75M to battle HBV and CDAD

March 20, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Less than a year after joining Nasdaq through a merger, Assembly Biosciences Inc. is tapping keen interest in the science behind its potentially curative preclinical hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) programs through a $75 million public offering that will carry it well into 2017 or beyond.
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Nektar drug glows dimly in late-stage breast cancer trial, BEACON

March 19, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Women with advanced breast cancer given the Nektar Therapeutics Inc. drug NKTR-102 (etirinotecan pegol) after earlier cancer treatments lived just 2.1 months longer than those treated with a chemotherapy chosen by their doctors, missing the phase III study's primary endpoint. While subsets of patients fared better, the study failed to achieve statistical significance on primary and secondary endpoints.
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Esperion grooms cholesterol-cutter with new data ahead of phase III

March 18, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
A cholesterol-lowering pill from Esperion Therapeutics Inc., ETC-1002 (bempedoic acid), significantly reduced LDL-cholesterol levels vs. placebo in a phase IIb study of patients with hypercholesterolemia on stable statin therapy, answering a key question for potential partners ahead of a planned phase III study later this year targeting statin-intolerant patients.
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Nantworks, Sorrento expand alliance with immunotherapy deal

March 17, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Nantworks Inc. and Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. have expanded their ongoing collaboration with a deal to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies derived from Sorrento's G-MAB library against Nantworks-identified neoepitopes of tumor-specific antigens drawn from its growing body of genomic and proteomic data.
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Young blood's elixir: Alkahest draws $38M from Grifols to battle CNS disorder

March 16, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Betting on the restorative power of young blood to reverse cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and other central nervous system disorders, Grifols SA is taking a 45 percent stake in Stanford University spinout Alkahest Inc.
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Neuralstem shares fall on ALS study data

March 13, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Neuralstem Inc. shares (NYSE:CUR) crumpled on Thursday, falling 36.6 percent in heavy trading to close at $2.37 as investors mulled top-line data from a phase II dose-escalation trial of NSI-566, the company's experimental neural stem cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Sucampo Pharma gives back rights to R-Tech eye drug

March 11, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. is returning to R-Tech Ueno Ltd. all licenses for the eye drug unoprostone isopropyl in the wake of a phase III study in which the drug failed to meet its primary endpoint of improving mean retinal sensitivity in people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) vs. placebo with statistical significance.
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Graybug nets new funds to tackle wet AMD with sustained-release tech

March 11, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Graybug Inc., a spinout of Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute that's developing an experimental microparticle drug for wet age-related macular degeneration, has closed a $1.74 million series A2 financing to help advance a preclinical drug and further prove its sustained-release technology.
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Sucampo Pharma gives back rights to R-Tech eye drug

March 10, 2015
By Michael Fitzhugh
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. is returning to R-Tech Ueno Ltd. all licenses for the eye drug unoprostone isopropyl in the wake of a phase III study in which the drug failed to meet its primary endpoint of improving mean retinal sensitivity in people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) vs. a placebo with statistical significance.
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